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Al-Aarbia – US President-elect Joe Biden will insist Iran agrees to new demands if it wants the US to return to a nuclear deal and lift sanctions, The New York Times said Wednesday. The Times said the Biden administration would seek to extend the duration of “restrictions on Iran’s production of fissile material that could be used to make a …

iranwire.com – An official at the Tehran Chamber of Commerce has announced that there will be few obstacles in Iran obtaining US-manufactured Covid-19 vaccines since 30 percent of the drugs entering Iran each month come from the United States anyway. “Issues such as sanctions or money transfers do not pose any obstacle to the import of vaccines,” Nasser Riahi, Deputy Chairman …

iranwire.com – On the suggestion of the Prisons Organization, May 25 has been designated the national day of support for prisoners’ families, known as Nasim-e Mehr [Breeze of Love]. The families and loved ones of people in prison, according to Iranian government officials, are not criminals and should be supported by wider society. In October this year the 18th General Assembly of …

iranwire.com – A child who drowned at the fishing port of Bandar Deir has been identified as seven-year-old Ali Asghar Mousavizadeh, whose 11-year-old brother Mohammad Mousavizadeh committed suicide in October. The Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting state media, reported that Mohammad Mousavizadeh had killed himself due to “poverty, not having a phone …

Al-Arabia – The US Justice Department has seized a website belonging to Iraq’s paramilitary Badr Organization in what one expert said is part of a broader US attempt to pressure Iran-backed groups in the country. “There’s been much more pressure on the groups as a whole,” Phillip Smyth, an analyst at the Washington Institute told Al Arabiya English. The latest …