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VOA —U.S. officials are increasing pressure on Iran to make progress in reviving a 2015 deal that curbed the Iranian nuclear program, saying they will determine within days if Tehran is serious about negotiations with world powers in Vienna. “We’re going to know very, very quickly, I think in the next day or two, whether Iran is serious or not,” …

Al-Monitor – The “Israeli regime … is trumpeting lies to poison Vienna talks,” tweeted Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh on the eve of the fourth day of nuclear talks between Tehran and major powers in the Austria capital. The stinging statement came in reaction to press reports earlier this week that Israel had provided the Western sides with intelligence that the …

Al-Monitor -The commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that the United States’ “teeth will be crushed” if it moves against Iran, according to state media. Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warned that Iran’s military capabilities had advanced to the point that the US “cannot do what you used to do in the past any longer. …

RFL/RE – Tehran says a deal with global powers to salvage a landmark 2015 nuclear deal is within reach even as the UN’s atomic watchdog said the country further violated the accord by starting to produce enriched uranium with more efficient centrifuges at its underground Fordow facility.Iran’s chief negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Khani, said on December 2 his team had …

Iranwire – The dark and arresting sketches of Touka Neyestani, IranWire’s Canada-based cartoonist, have captivated our readers since 2013. Once an artist for Iranian magazines, in his later career Touka’s acid takes on the political situation in Iran – be they bleak and menacing, inducive of a guilty laugh, or gut-wrenchingly sad – won him millions of fans the world …