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RFL/RE – Tehran says it is ready to implement a prisoner swap with the United States and urged President Joe Biden to “act” and “remove obstacles” to making progress on the subject. Tehran has long sought the return of more than a dozen Iranians currently held in the United States, while Washington has been seeking the release of several Iranian-American …

RFL/RE- The United States and European Union said on August 16 that they were examining Iran’s response to a “final” draft text to revive a nuclear deal with world powers after Tehran said it submitted its views to the EU’s coordinator for the talks a day earlier. Washington said it had already given its response privately to EU foreign policy …

Iranwire – Iranian human rights advocates in the UK are poised to file a criminal complaint against Ataollah Mohajerani, an ex-Minister of Culture who wrote a book promoting the 1989 fatwa to murder Salman Rushdie. Mohajerani, 68, now lives in London. His book A Critique of the Satanic Verses Conspiracy praised the ailing Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for “all brave Muslims” to “execute” Rushdie, …

Iranwire – Outspoken politicial activist Faezeh Hashemi has called on Iran’s reformists not to remain silent in the face of a litany of injustices in Iran, as, she said, they had been in the past. In a video clip shared with IranWire, Hashemi, the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, tells the camera: “Since the last election we have …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, August 10, two days before the start of the 22nd Iran Pro League, the Iran Football League Organization announced matches this season would all take place without spectators. Eight games duly kicked off on Friday and Saturday before tens of thousands of empty seats. Earlier, the Iranian Football Federation and National Coronavirus Taskforce had agreed stadiums could be at …