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RFL/RE – French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, to engage in a “constructive manner” in ongoing international negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers.In telephone talks on November 29, Macron told Raisi that Paris’s objective is “to see Iran return to full respect for all of its …

Iranwire – Two years have passed since the security forces of the Islamic Republic brutally suppressed peaceful protests by the Iranian people in November 2019, killing a reported 1500 citizens, according to Reuters. On the second anniversary of this massacre, the families of those who were murdered are now facing yet more pressure from the regime, which wants them to stop speaking …

Iranwire – Jews have been living in Iran since Biblical times, after Cyrus the Great freed them from captivity in Babylon. But since the 1979 Islamic Revolution the Jewish population of Iran has dwindled to a fraction of its former size. Those Jews who have remained in Iran under the present rule by Shia clergy are attacked and harassed on …

Iranwire – Antisemitism has compelled tens of thousands of Iranian Jews to leave their homes and move abroad over the past 42 years. Those who chose to remain in the Islamic Republic have had to endure continuous hatred, promoted and institutionalized by the state. Since the foundation of the Islamic Republic, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, state-owned news agencies and …

CHRI – The Iranian security and military forces’ violent crackdown on large protests in the city of Isfahan that broke out over severe state mismanagement of water resources is more evidence of the Ebrahim Raisi government’s policy of zero tolerance of public criticism and dissent. “People from various sectors of society are protesting the state’s incompetence in resolving fundamental crises that are …