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Iranwire – Iran has signed more than $16bn worth of oil contracts since the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi last summer, but won’t be disclosing information about them, the Minister of Oil has announced. Javad Oji made the remarks to IRNA news agency this morning as part of a comparison between the performance of the 13th government of the Islamic Republic and the Raisi …

VOA – Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to Karaj in December to re-install …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces launch a plan to deal with those who eat or drink in public during the Ramadan fasting month in Iran. During the first days of Ramadan, the state-run media also publish numerous photos of police dealing with people eating, drinking, or smoking in public. Every year, many citizens are convicted of “breaking the fast” in sharia …

Iranhr.net – The Iranian authorities are violating the absolute prohibition of torture or other ill-treatment through the harassment of witnesses who testified at the “people’s tribunal” in relation the authorities’ deadly crackdown on the November 2019 nationwide protests, as well as their families, said 15 undersigned organizations. In response to public calls for truth, justice and reparation for crimes under …

Al-Monitor – The United States and Iran have never been closer to an agreement to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that he is “not overly optimistic” it will get done. But whether the parties to the agreement can reach a signing ceremony in Vienna may …