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Iran-HRM – A security guard halted a concert by the Kamakan group in the middle of their performance in Tehran. In a video published on social media, a security guard is shown suddenly coming on stage while the group members were performing telling the band’s vocalist “Stop singing. We were told to halt it!”   In response to the group’s …

Al-Monitor – A compromise to restore the landmark Iranian nuclear accord that the European Union says is the best possible offer for both parties is being considered by decision-makers in Washington and Tehran. More than a year of delicate diplomacy aimed at reviving the tattered 2015 accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has come down to …

RFL/RE – Iran says it plans to build a new research reactor at its nuclear site in Isfahan Province, with construction set to start in the next several weeks. “This is an entirely domestic project that will close the chain of research, evaluation, testing, and production of nuclear energy in Iran,” Mohammad Eslami, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, …

RFL/RE – Iran Human Rights Organization says Mohsen Safari, who was convicted on narcotics charges, has been executed despite a doctor’s diagnosis that he suffered from a mental disorder. The rights group quoted Safari’s relatives as saying on July 27 that he was executed at the request of the Counterintelligence Organization. Safari was arrested in 2009 after being caught with …

Iranwire – Sardar Pashaei, a former world wrestling champion and coach of Iran’s national wrestling teams, protested yesterday against the removal of Mahsa Ghorbani, Iran’s first female international football referee, from participating in the 2022 World Cup by publishing a photo of her on Twitter. Mr. Pashaei wrote in his tweet: “Mahsa Ghorbani, Iran’s first female international football referee, was …