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Soaring Infection Rates In Iran Might Close Down Religious City

Radiofarda – As coronavirus infections soar in Iran, there is talk of a lockdown in Mashhad, the country’s second city and a major destination for pilgrims this week. Only hours after Iranian news agencies on Wednesday quoted two officials in Mashhad as saying that the holy city will be locked down for a week due to the worsening pandemic, another …

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Iran Says Natanz Nuclear Facility Not Damaged Despite ‘Incident’

RFL/RE – Iran says there has been an “incident” at one of its nuclear facilities monitored by the UN’s atomic agency, but there was no damage to the site. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behruz Kamalvandi said the incident occurred early on July 2 at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran where a building under construction, described as …

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Arms Embargo Extension For Tehran Takes Center Stage In U.S.-Iranian Tensions

RFL/RE – A confrontation is heating up between Tehran and Washington over the possible extension of a five-year arms embargo against Iran that is due to expire in four months. The United States wants to extend the ban — which was part of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers — indefinitely through a UN Security Council …

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Iran Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Iranian-French Academic

HRW – On June 30, an Iranian appeals court in Tehran upheld a five-year prison sentence against Fariba Adelkhah, an Iranian-French anthropologist at the Sciences Po university in Paris who has been detained for over a year. Adelkhah’s case is one of the half-dozen known instances of Iranian dual nationals who are detained in Iran on vaguely defined national security charges. Authorities …

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Iran: Arash Sadeghi’s Health Continues to Deteriorate After 4 Years in Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Arash Sadeghi, a civil rights activist and political prisoner who is serving a 19-year sentence in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, has now spent four years in prison despite deteriorating health and lack of access to medical care. According to Iran Human Rights, Arash Sadeghi who has been in prison for four years, is in a …

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