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Iran-HRM – political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health after 39 days of hunger strike in protest of the prosecutor’s rejection of his request for leave. A member of the political prisoner’s family told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health. He described that the court and the Yazd prison officials have accepted Mohammadzadeh’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner only named as Nouramad, who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on September 5. He has only been named as 45-year-old Nourahmad, known as Keramat and had been sentenced to qisas for murder. Rokna reports that Nourahmad was …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Ghaani spoke to parliament during a closed session Tuesday about the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. According to Iranian parliamentarian Alireza Soleimani, Ghaani said Iran had a number of priorities in Afghanistan. The first was that Iran’s security in Afghanistan not be “compromised.” Ghaani said the US goal is to have Iran’s government involved in conflicts …

Al-Monitor – Malley on road for nuclear talks. US Iran Envoy Robert Malley visits Moscow and Paris this week for talks on “Iran’s nuclear program and the need to quickly reach and implement an understanding on a mutual return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” according to the Department of State. Background. The Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear …

RFL/RE – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says he is scheduled to meet with the U.S. special envoy for Iran for two days of talks expected to focus on Tehran’s nuclear program. Moscow and Washington have been planning the consultations between Ryabkov and U.S. envoy Robert Malley “for a rather long time in order to discuss the whole situation …