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VOA – European Union foreign ministers on Monday debated ways to keep the Iran nuclear deal intact after the Islamic Republic began enrichment work at its Fordo site in a fresh act of defiance that seems likely to spell the end of the painstakingly crafted international agreement. At talks in Brussels, the EU powers that signed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal …

VOA – The United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq warned Sunday of the need for timely, tangible results in the government’s response to protests that began in early October, and offered a roadmap to address some of the demonstrators’ demands. The U.N. office issued a statement saying that within a week the government should release all protesters who have been …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at the central prison of Shiraz city last Monday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, November 4, prisoner Hossein Asgari was hanged at Shiraz Central Prison (also known as Adelabad prison).  A human rights group, Nafad Dar Ghafas, has reported that Hossein Asgari was arrested three years ago …

Radiofarda – Demonstrators protesting President Hassan Rouhani’s policies heckled Iran’s president during a speech in the city of Yazd in central Iran on Sunday November 10. Rouhani said “the voice of these young men is not the voice of the people,” and called on his supporters “not to allow America’s demands be voiced by these individuals.” Although Rouhani said protestors …

Reuters -Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian site that Israel called a “secret atomic warehouse”. Two months after Reuters first reported that samples taken at the site had shown traces of uranium, the IAEA on Wednesday told member states …