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VOA – Rescuers searched for the missing in Iran on Friday after landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 53 people, officials said. Mehdi Valipour, head of emergency operations at the Red Crescent Society, told state TV that 16 people were still missing after two days of floods that have affected 400 towns and villages in 18 …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities amputated the fingers of a prisoner convicted of theft on July 27. Former political prisoner Arash Sadeghi tweeted the news the same day saying that the prisoner’s fingers were cut off in the infirmary of Tehran’s Evin prison. Mr. Sadeghi identified the prisoner as P.T. Iranian judicial had previously denied the implementation of amputation sentences for …

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, …