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Al-Arabia – It will be “impossible to imagine” a nuclear deal with Iran if detained Americans are not released, a senior US official said Thursday. As indirect talks on a new nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran appear to be heading for the finish line, one of the main sticking points remains the detained US citizens. Earlier this week, Iran released two …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Having conspicuously failed in its efforts to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration looks set to add to its global reputation for weakness by agreeing yet another flawed nuclear deal with Iran. Russia has been fully involved in the latest talks to revive the deal, as the negotiator for the US. Western negotiators have claimed that …

RFL/RE – Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) last year urged the judiciary to issue travel bans against several oil officials for fear they could expose the “secret” tactics Tehran has used to evade U.S. sanctions and sell its oil, according to a leaked confidential document. The “highly confidential” IRGC document was leaked to the London-based Iran International television …

Iranwire – Ex-Iranian vice president Ataollah Mohajerani now lives in the UK. An academic and writer, he promotes “interreligious and intercultural dialogue” to online audiences of thousands. But he never talks about his book, Critique of the Satanic Verses Conspiracy, penned in the wake of the 1989 fatwa calling for the execution of author Salman Rushdie. In it, Mohajerani defended Ruhollah …

Iranwire – At one point on Wednesday, as many as 20,000 people online were tracking the live, charted progress of Titan Airways Flight ZT601 as it made its way across mainland Europe, reducing the distance minute by minute to the destination: England. The plane took off from Muscat a little before 5pm local time, carrying what is likely to be …