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Al-Monitor – Eight imprisoned men in Iran are set to have their fingers amputated for alleged theft after rights groups said at least three of the men were convicted in grossly unfair trials. Iranian authorities have informed the prisoners that they will face a guillotine machine in the coming days, Amnesty International said Friday.  According to the rights organization, the eight men were …

Al-Monitor – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Iran today. During a two-day visit, he will meet with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.  Maduro sat down with the Iranian Spanish-language news outlet HispanTV upon his arrival in the Iranian capital. During the interview, Maduro thanked Iran for successfully sending Venezuela fuel in defiance of US sanctions. The South American …

Al-Monitor – Amid a host of pressing economic grievances, flaring tensions with the West and Israel and a nuclear deal on the edge of collapse, Iran’s longstanding drug problem has fallen by the wayside. Only now and then does the debate resurface to briefly grab headlines and disappear again, as was the case with comments in April by a senior parliamentarian who …

Al-Monitor – Driven apart by clashing regional interests, Turkey and Iran appear headed for a face-off in Syria, with Tehran explicitly opposing Ankara’s plan for a fresh military operation against Kurdish-held areas, wary of risks to its own posture in the region. Turkey has failed to get a green light from the United States to press ahead with the plan, …

Al-Arabia – Germany, the United Kingdom and France on Thursday urged Iran to “cease its nuclear escalation” and “urgently conclude the deal currently on the table” to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. “There has been a viable deal on the table since March,” they said in a joint statement. “We regret that Iran has not seized the diplomatic opportunity to …