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freebeacon – The Biden administration is expanding the team dedicated to renegotiating the Iran deal, just days after Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett urged the United States to back out of negotiations, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Dan Shapiro, the Obama administration’s ambassador to Israel, is now working as an adviser on the Iran portfolio, the State Department confirmed to the Free …

Al-Monitor -Iran’s Revolutionary Court has started the trial of two Swedish men charged with drug trafficking, Iranian state news reported. This comes weeks after a former Iranian official accused of war crimes went on trial in Stockholm. The judiciary’s official Mizan news agency said Stephen Kevin Gilbert and Simon Kasper Brown appeared before Branch 15 of Iran’s Revolutionary Court. Iranian prosecutors …

Al-Monitor — An Iranian man died after he was submitted to a lashing penalty inside a jail in Iran’s Turkish-majority eastern Azerbaijan province. The inmate, identified as Hadi Atazadeh, had been handed an unspecified prison sentence and lashes after being charged with alcohol possession one and a half years ago. Under the Islamic Republic’s strict penal code, consumption and possession of alcoholic …

RFL/RE – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release a financial reporter who was reportedly arrested this week on security charges, saying that the jailing of journalists for doing their jobs is “an outrageous form of censorship that must end.” The New-York-based media freedom watchdog made the call in a statement on September 1 …

Iranwire – Imprisoned journalist and editor Keyvan Samimi has blamed senior officials in the Islamic Republic for day-to-day violations of Iranian prisoners’ rights. The 72-year-old addressed the issue on Telegram shortly after a hacking group leaked CCTV footage from Evin Prison showing a litany of human rights violations. Samimi, the former editor-in-chief of Iran-e Farda who has been targeted several times by the regime, …