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Analysis: Wielding fresh leverage, Iran to play hardball at nuclear talks

(Reuters) – Iran will adopt an uncompromising stance when it resumes nuclear talks with major powers, betting it has the leverage to win wide sanctions relief in return for curbs on its increasingly advanced atomic technology, officials and analysts say. The stakes are high, since failure in the negotiations resuming in Vienna on Nov. 29 to revive a 2015 nuclear deal would carry the …

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KAHN: Canada must increase pressure on Iran

torontosun – The regime in Iran is up in arms. Last month, after the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, condemned Tehran’s domestic repression at the UN General Assembly, an Iranian diplomat had choice words for the West — and for Canada in particular. “The appointment of a special rapporteur for Iran,” said Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s deputy ambassador …

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Aban Tribunal: Detainees ‘Drugged and Made to Simulate Their Funerals’

Iranwire – Iranians held at a Ministry of Intelligence detention center after the November 2019 protests were given psychoactive drugs and shut in a room resembling a grave in a bid to make them “confess”, an insider has claimed. Speaking at the Aban Tribunal in London on Wednesday with his face and voice obscured, Witness 185 was introduced as a relative of a high-ranking …

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Rights Groups’ Tribunal on Iran’s 2019 Protests Crackdown in London Renews Accountability Calls

VOA —Iran is facing renewed scrutiny for its deadly suppression of nationwide protests in 2019, as a London tribunal organized by rights groups began hearing testimony Wednesday from relatives of those killed and others regarding alleged crimes committed in the crackdown. The event known as an international people’s tribunal opened in London’s Church House conference center. Its goal is to investigate alleged …

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Activist teacher Aziz Ghasemzadeh summoned to the Court of Rudsar

Iran-HRM – The 2nd Branch of the Revolutionary and Public Court of Rudsar summoned the activist teacher Aziz Ghasemzadeh on November 6, 2021. The security forces had arrested Aziz Ghasemzadeh on September 26, 2021, one day after the nationwide protest gatherings of teachers in 36 cities. They subsequently inspected his residence and confiscated some of his personal belongings. The state security forces arrested …

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