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RFL/RE – Tehran says there has been significant progress in talks with the United States on an agreement to swap prisoners. Iran is holding a number of dual nationals, including several Iranian-Americans, amid accusations by rights activists and others that Tehran is using the detainees to extract concessions from other countries. “These negotiations have progressed significantly and we are waiting …

Iranwire – Russia relies on official Arabic-speaking media to help justify the war on Ukraine by airing and disseminating disinformation to audiences across the Middle East. Kremlin-controlled media outlets are backed in the endeavour by a cluster of Arabic-language channels, notably those controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The main Russian state-controlled outlets …

VOA – France on Monday warned Russia not to resort to blackmail over efforts to revive a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, after Moscow demanded a U.S. guarantee that sanctions it faces over Ukraine would not hurt its trade with Tehran. Iran in turn said it would not allow others to impede its interests as, following the potential …

Iran-HRM – A Baluch man was killed Saturday by the state security forces in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. Loghman Narouii, a 33-year-old Baluch man, was shot in the head by security forces after he refused to stop at a police checkpoint for not having a driving license. The Iranian regime’s armed forces, shoot, kill, or injure innocent civilians without being held …

Iran-HRM – Security forces of Kermanshah, western Iran, have raided the residences of the relatives of a Kurd witness who testified in Aban International Court investigating the bloody crackdown on the protests in Iran in November 2019. The security forces searched their houses and interrogated the residents. Sohbatollah Omidi, who was arrested during the November 2019 protests, announced: “In the past few …