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VOA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday continued to chart a collision course with Washington over Iran. Erdogan is categorically ruling out enforcing American sanctions intended to put Iran in an economic straitjacket. “It is impossible for us to cancel relations with Iran with regard to oil and natural gas. We will continue to buy our natural gas …

VOA – U.S. President Donald Trump says he never agreed to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for talks, disputing an earlier assertion by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump Iran wanted me to lift the sanctions imposed on them in order to meet. I said, of course, NO!80.1K2:23 PM – Sep 27, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy25.9K people …

Iran Human Rights – Three men were hanged for drug-related charges at the central prison of the Iranian city of Urmia. According to the Iran Human Rights (IHR), on the morning of Wednesday, September 25, three men were hanged for drug-related charges at the prison of the Iranian city of Urmia (also known as Darya Prison). IHR could identify the …

CHRI – More than three years into ongoing strikes for unpaid wages and benefits, workers of Iran’s biggest sugar plant are now also calling for their imprisoned colleagues’ freedom. Hundreds of workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-industrial Complex in the city of Shush, southwestern Iran, attended a fifth consecutive day of demonstrations on September 27, 2019, to protest the …

AL-Monitor – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is in New York meeting with European leaders and attempting to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal the United States exited in 2018. European leaders have been encouraging Rouhani to meet with Donald Trump while both are in New York in order to de-escalate tensions between the two countries. …