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RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Brussels on March 22 to meet with NATO and European Union leaders as part of President Joe Biden’s efforts to repair transatlantic ties.Blinken will attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers and consult with allies and the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on March 23 and March 24, according …

RFL/RE – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reiterated Iran’s “definite policy” that Washington must lift all sanctions if the United States and its allies want to see Tehran return to its commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal.“Our position is clear and has not changed. All U.S. sanctions have to be lifted in accordance with the…agreement, and then we’ll return …

Iranwire – Twenty-eight Iranian political prisoners have announced in a letter that they will be on hunger strike for the first three days of the Iranian New Year (from March 20-22) in protest against repression and in solidarity with the suffering of the Iranian people. The letter, signed by prisoners of conscience currently held in Evin and Fashafouyeh Prisons in …

Iranwire – The father of one of the victims of the November 2019 protests has called the year 1400 the year of “No to the Islamic Republic” in a video message posted at the weekend. Manouchehr Bakhtiari’s 27-year-old son, Pouya, was shot in the head and killed on November 19, 2019 at a demonstration in Karaj. His family have since …

VOA – Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation’s capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.   They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency in January showed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard discussed mounting “USS Cole-style attacks” against the base, referring to the October 2000 …