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VOA – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he had spoken with his Russian counterpart about restoring Iran’s nuclear deal and that the issue is of mutual concern to the United States and Russia. “We had an opportunity to compare notes on where we stand and where we hope to go,” Blinken said at a Paris news …

VOA – American Navy veteran Michael White, whom Iran freed in a 2020 prisoner swap with the U.S., has shared new details of his 20-month detention in the Islamic Republic, including alleged physical abuses that he said he suffered at the hands of Iranian guards. White shared the details with VOA Persian in a one-hour-and-45-minute conversation filmed in San Diego, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Labour and social welfare journalist and researcher, Khosrow Sadeghi-Boroujeni is reportedly in a bad physical condition in Evin Prison. Despite frequently seeking treatment at the prison infirmary, he has so far been denied effective medical treatment, specialist treatment outside the prison and medical furlough. Informed sources have told Iran Human Rights that Khosrow is given …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Mashallah Sabzi who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder based on a qassameh ceremony has been executed in Kermanshah Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on September 30. His identity has been established as 48-year-old Mashallah Sabzi who was sentenced to qisas for murder. “Mashallah Sabzi was sentenced to …

Al-Monitor – Heating up: Iran is escalating tensions with Azerbaijan over Baku’s longstanding close ties with Iran’s nemesis, Israel. Iran has staged troop exercises near the Azerbaijan border in response to joint Azeri exercises with Turkish forces, at which Azeri President Ilham Aliyev showed up in military attire. Azerbaijan has reportedly stopped Iranian trucks transiting to its rival, Armenia, and Iran has …