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Al-Monitor – The British government says it urged Iran to release its detained citizens on Thursday, but the husband of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says his own meeting with the Foreign Office gave him “no hope.”   British officials on Thursday met in London with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani to discuss the landmark nuclear deal ahead …

Al-Arabia – At least 25 Yemenis working for the US in Sanaa have been detained in recent weeks by the Iran-backed Houthi militia who controls the capital, according to two people familiar with the matter. Those rounded up include Yemenis working for the US embassy and USAID, the international development arm of the American government, according to the people, who …

(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 …

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 …

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 …