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Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Kasra Bani Amerian detained in section 8 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, suffered irreparable mental tension following harassment by prison agents. The political prisoner who suffers from polyneuropathy,  a progressive nerve disease, has been detained in section 8 since November 2020 despite the fact that the prison clinic lacks treatment facilities and even qualified doctors. Despite …

Al-Monitor – Iran has provided its views to the European Union on the bloc’s latest proposal to salvage the landmark nuclear agreement, a source in the Iranian negotiating team told Al-Monitor.  The EU, which has mediated some 16 months of indirect talks between Washington and Tehran, put forward a “final text” on Aug. 8 to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan …

Al-Monitor – Hard-line Iranian media has praised the knife attack on the author Salman Rushdie, who once had a death sentence issued against him by the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The hard-line Kayhan newspaper wrote — in an article titled, “Rushdie received divine revenge, Trump and Pompeo are next” — how Rushdie’s novel “Satanic Verses” was deemed an “insult to  Islam, …

Shabtabnews – In a letter the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) condemned the attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie. The letter stated that: “Ruhollah Khomeini’s political fatwa for the murder of Salman Rushdie at that time should be interpreted as a Machiavellian act, in order to show European governments the Iranian regimes’ power. The power which the ruling mullahs …

Al-Arabia – Iran will respond to the European Union’s “final” text by midnight on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, calling on the United States to show flexibility to resolve three remaining issues to save a 2015 nuclear pact. “We do not want to reach a deal that after 40 days, two months or three months fails to be …