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Al-Arabia – The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says that Iran will begin offering its inspectors “less access” but will still allow the agency to monitor its atomic program. Rafael Grossi made the comments on arrival to Vienna on late Sunday night. He was careful to say that there still would be the same number of inspectors, but …

RFL/RE – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on Iran to fully comply with the 2015 nuclear pact with world powers which he said was in Tehran’s interest. Addressing the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on February 22, Maas noted U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration’s stated readiness to rejoin the pact, adding: “It is in Iran’s best interest …

RFL/RE – President Joe Biden’s national-security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on February 21 that the new administration has “begun to communicate with the Iranians” on the issue of detained Americans. Speaking on a weekend current-affairs program, Sullivan said Washington’s “strong message to the Iranians will be that…we will not accept a long-term proposition where they continue to hold Americans in …

Iranwire – According to an official report by the Iranian police, the country is on the route of human trafficking from its eastern neighbors to European countries, and human traffickers in Iran carry out their trade by air, land and sea. Frequently it is the Arab countries that import girls and women, who are often trafficked from Iran, and the …

Iranwire – A tempest of tweets is expected to sweep the Internet today and tomorrow, 22 and 23 February, in support of the Baha’is in Ivel, a village in northern Iran, whose land has been confiscated by the Iranian authorities. The Twitter storms, which have been called by the Baha’i International Community, will take place between 5pm and 6pm GMT under the …