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Trump Says Iran ‘Can’t Test Missiles’ After Zarif Raises Idea of Talks

VOA – President Donald Trump has responded to Iran’s top diplomat raising the idea of talks about its missile program by saying Iran cannot test ballistic missiles that are seen by the U.S. as vehicles to carry nuclear bombs. Speaking to reporters Tuesday at a White House Cabinet meeting, Trump said that in addition to his belief that Iran must …

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Portugal Suspends Visas for Iranians, Cites Security Reasons

VOA – Portugal has suspended the issuance of entry visas for Iranian nationals for unspecified security reasons, Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Tuesday, adding the move was not related to bilateral relations between the two countries. Answering a question from a lawmaker at parliamentary committee on whether such a move had been taken, Santos Silva said during the …

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IRAN: FURTHER INFORMATION: JAILED JOURNALISTS ON HUNGER STRIKE: SANAZ ALAHYARI, AMIRHOSSEIN MOHAMMADIFAR AND AMIR AMIRGHOLI

Amnesty – Iranian journalists Sanaz Alahyari and Amirhossein Mohammadifar have been on hunger strike since 4 July. They are protesting their continued detention and the authorities’ ongoing crackdown on labour rights activists and journalists covering the protests at Haft Tappeh sugar cane company in Khuzestan province. Prison doctors have said that Sanaz Alahyari is in poor health and she could …

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Iran: Four People Hanged in One Day at Urmia Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four prisoners were hanged for murder charges at Urmia prison this morning. According to IHR sources, on the early morning of Tuesday, July 16, four prisoners were hanged for murder charges at Urmia prison. Two of them were identified by IHR sources as Khaled Royan and Heman Banavand. All four were sentenced to death for …

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Zaghari-Ratcliffe Transferred to Psychiatric Ward, Held Incommunicado

CHRI – Revolutionary Guards Blocking Outside Contact, Says Free Nazanin Campaign  Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in the psychiatric ward of the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran since July 2015, 2019, according to the Free Nazanin campaign. Throughout this time she has been denied contact with her family and guarded by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). …

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