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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohiyedin Damani, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Birjand Central Prison on August 17. His identity has been reported as Mohiyedin Damani who was sentenced to death for drug-related offences by the Revolutionary Court …

Al-Monitor – It’s not done until it’s done, but political analysts and oil-market experts believe a return to the Iran nuclear deal is closer than ever, with US and European officials reviewing Iran’s latest proposal.  If — or when — an agreement is reached, and the US ends sanctions imposed in 2018 when US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan …

RFL/RE – Three days after British-American author Salman Rushdie was seriously wounded in a shocking knife attack in New York, Iran “categorically” denied any links with the suspected attacker, 24-year-old Lebanese-American Hadi Matar. The Islamic republic, however, managed to place the blame on Rushdie, who has lived under an Iranian death sentence since 1989 because of his novel The Satanic …

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 …