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Al-Arabia – A member of Iran’s powerful Guardian Council says the Islamic Republic should stop honoring all terms of the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers amid tensions with the US. Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei says that while Iran has “shown a lot of patience,” it has been more than a year since President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled America out …

RFL/RE – Iran says it has arrested a fugitive businessman charged with financial crimes and accused of ties to President Hassan Rohani’s brother, who has been imprisoned for graft. Rasoul Danialzadeh “returned to the country under the guidance…of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence agents,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on November 13.Esmaili said Danialzadeh was “not detained abroad” and “had accepted to …

RFL/RE – An Iranian citizen has been remanded in custody in Sweden on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and murder in the late 1980s in Iran. A file photo of a protest in Washington, D.C. showing images of the alleged victims of state-sponsored executions of Iranian political prisoners. Swedish Prosecutor Karolina Wieslander said on November 13 that the …

VOA – Security forces killed two protesters and wounded 35 others in Baghdad Thursday, police and medical sources said, as thousands of Iraqis continued a wave of anti-government protests. One protester died immediately after a tear gas canister hit his head and another died in a hospital from wounds from a stun bomb fired by security forces, the sources said. …

Amnesty – An award-winning journalist previously trapped on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, has touched down at Auckland Airport and has been granted a visitor visa for New Zealand to appear at a special WORD Christchurch event on November 29th. Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran, is known the world over for his work reporting on human rights abuses …