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RFL/RE – Iran says the legal steps required for the release of the British-flagged oil tanker it seized along with its crew in July have been completed.An Iranian government spokesman said on September 23 that while the vessel was now free to go, he did not know the exact timing of when it would set sail.“The legal process has finished …

RFL/RE – U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain has concluded Iran was responsible for the September 14 attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, and will consider taking part in a U.S.-led military effort to bolster the kingdom’s defenses.But Johnson, talking to reporters on the plane to the UN General Assembly in New York, also said Britain will work …

VOA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign has failed, and that sanctions it imposed after abandoning the 2015 agreement on Iran’s nuclear program show the United States is desperate. Speaking before traveling to New York to participate the annual United Nations General Assembly meetings, Rouhani also said the United States and Saudi Arabia have …

CHRI – On September 14, 2019, the BBC aired an audio file containing the voice of labor activist Sepideh Qoliyan saying that she was pressured to make a false confession by agents while held in Gharchak Prison in Varamin, south of Tehran, where she is currently awaiting the outcome of her appeal. “You are hearing my voice from among 1,500 innocent women [in the prison],” Qoliyan said. “Last …

gatestoneinstitute.org – It is likely that whoever planned the attacks was more interested in testing the waters, seeing how far it was possible to go in provocation… What the mullahs did not realize was that the new status quo came at no cost to the Americans, who could thus afford to prolong it as far as needed. All that Trump …