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RFL/RE – Tehran won’t agree to stop its 20 percent uranium-enrichment work before the United States lifts all sanctions, state television quoted an unnamed official as saying, after a U.S. media report said Washington would offer a new proposal for talks to resolve the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program. “A senior Iranian official tells Press TV that Tehran will stop …

Iranwire – It has long appeared that no-one in the Iranian government is willing or able to solve the dilemmas plaguing Iran’s meat and poultry industry. The skyrocketing costs of these food staples are only ever mentioned by politicians in the context of arguments about the upcoming election. In this atmosphere, with the issue of feeding a nation deeply politicized, …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran is a singular political system in many respects. Over the past 42 years, a considerable number of its officials have faced criminal charges in other countries. What other country’s accredited diplomats have been convicted in a foreign court of law for planning a bomb attack? In what other country are citizens fighting to …

Iranwire – In the coming days another 20 Iranian cities will be placed on high alert for coronavirus transmission, after a surge in New Year travel over the past two weeks. Alireza Raeesi, a spokesman for the National Coronavirus Taskforce, said on Monday, March 29 that the Taskforce is expecting to see a rise in infections across the western and central parts …

Iran Human Rights – The 13th annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty), shows that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Islamic Republic continued carrying out executions as in the previous years, and remains the only country to have executed juvenile offenders in 2020.  The death penalty was also used to suppress protesters, …