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VOA – A once-detained Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. appears to be off the coast of Syria, where Tehran reportedly promised the vessel would not go when authorities in Gibraltar agreed to release it several weeks ago, according to satellite images obtained Saturday by The Associated Press. The appearance of the Adrian Darya-1 in waters near Tartus comes …

CHRI – Imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi and recently released political prisoner Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi were informed that they must serve an additional 2.1 years in prison now that the Tehran Appeals Court upheld a joint sentence against them under the charges of “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state.” Daemi’s mother, Masoumeh Nemati, told the Center for Human Rights in …

Al-Monitor – When Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani, a former chairman of Iran’s judiciary, came under political fire recently, he reacted with an over-the-top outburst that could endanger his future and that of his highly influential family. When Larijani was appointed judiciary chief in 2009 — a position he held until December 2018 — many considered him a strong candidate to eventually become supreme leader. But his standing has …

hollywoodreporter – Taghi Amirani’s deeply researched documentary focuses on the crucial 1953 Anglo-American-engineered regime change in Iran. Arguably one of the most consequential but little-discussed foreign policy decisions of the post-World War II era is enthrallingly dissected in Coup 53. People under 40 or so generally know something about Vietnam, the crumbling of the Soviet Union and European communism and the fallout …

Radiofarda – U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated that “dropping sanctions against Iran is not going to happen at this time.” Trump made the remark during a telephone conversation with his French Counterpart President Emmanuel Macron, Special assistant to the President of and white House deputy press secretary Judd Deere tweeted on Thursday August 5. Deere added that the two …