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RFL/RE – Iran welcomes diplomatic efforts to resolve its nuclear dispute with world powers, state media quoted the Iranian foreign minister as saying a day after the European Union’s top diplomat proposed a new draft text to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on July 27 that Iran …

RFL/RE – Jailed Iranian activist Farhad Meysami faces new charges over his criticism and hunger strike to protest against the threatened execution of Swedish-Iranian doctor Ahmedreza Djalali. Mohammad Moghimi, Meysami’s lawyer, told Radio Farda that his client refused to participate in a meeting over the case because he had not been given proper notification. Meysami, a medical doctor, has been …

Iranwire – Security forces have descended on the family home of a young man killed in Iran’s November 2019 protests, beating his relatives and taking his younger brother into custody. The raid on Wednesday is understood to have been aimed at Farzaneh Ansarifar, the sister of Farzad Ansarifar, who was shot in the back of the head with a Kalashnikov in Behbahan, …

Iranwire – Detained LGBT+ rights advocate Zahra Sedighi-Hamedani, known online as Sareh, has been ordered to pay a fine of 5.3 million tomans for “illegally leaving the country”. The young blogger was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards on the Turkish border last year. She had previously lived and worked in Iraqi Kurdistan, and was jailed there for 20 days after …

Iranwire – Family members of Iran-Iraq war veterans detained for taking part in peaceful rallies have staged a days-long sit-in in front of Evin Prison to demand their release. The men in custody are all understood to have taken part in recent demonstrations organized by pensioners and retirees in Iran. The participants’ payments are now woefully behind inflation and they have held …