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RFL/RE – Relatives of Nazanin Bahrami say the Iranian actress has been arrested by undercover police in central Tehran. Bahrami was one of some 800 women to recently sign a statement denouncing the “systematic” sexual harassment and violence against women in the Iranian film industry and had called for a mechanism to ensure those responsible were dealt with. Her relatives said Bahrami …

Iranwire – Doctors and activists have expressed alarm at a recent announcement that the names of all pregnant women in Iran will be added to an online registry from the moment they return a positive test. On July 16, Saber Jabberi, head of the Health Ministry’s Youth Population Department, told the state-aligned Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) that the Ministry had begun …

iranhr.net – Vash, two Baluch men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on July 23. Their identities have been reported as Esmail Narouyi who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges and Khaled Paraki (pictured), sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. Esmail Narouyi is reported to have been arrested on the road between Zahedan and Mashhad three years ago on …

voanews – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that reviving the landmark 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear capabilities was “still possible” but must happen “as soon as possible.” Macron also “expressed his disappointment” at the absence of progress after the suspension of talks in Vienna and underlined the need for Iran to return to …

voanews – Iran said Saturday that its intelligence agents dismantled a group linked to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, which had allegedly planned terror operations inside Iran. According to Iran’s state-run TV, members of the group had entered Iran from an unspecified neighboring country’s Kurdish-populated area. Both Turkey and Iraq have a minority Kurdish population living alongside the Iranian border. …