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No Evidence of Russia Buying Iran’s Oil in Claimed Defiance of US Sanctions

VOA – A Russian bid to defy U.S. sanctions on Iran appears to have failed, with Russian energy experts saying Moscow has made no recent purchases of Iranian oil as part of a sputtering 2014 deal with Tehran. Russian state media have said that under the August 2014 memorandum, which was never published in full, Moscow agreed to buy Iranian …

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Iran: Cruel campaign to extract propaganda ‘confessions’ from protesters against compulsory veiling

Amnesty – Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions” from women’s rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country’s discriminatory forced veiling (hijab) laws, said Amnesty International.  The organization has identified a pattern of at least six such cases since April 2019. In one of them, …

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Fact Sheet: Children in Iran Are Unprotected from Abuse and Severe Rights Violations

CHRI —At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, including scant legal protection against physical or sexual violence, widespread child marriage and labor, and execution for crimes committed while juveniles. While there is a …

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Iran calls for concrete steps from Europe to save nuclear deal

Al-Monitor – The four-year anniversary of the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was signed by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, passed on July 14. But with the accord nearing collapse due to the US exit from the deal in May …

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Paris demands answers after Franco-Iranian academic arrested in Iran

france24 – Fariba Adelkhah, an academic with dual French and Iranian nationality from Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po university, has been arrested in Iran and denied contact with French consular staff, France’s foreign ministry said Monday. “France calls on the Iranian authorities to shed full light on Mrs [Fariba] Adelkhah’s situation and repeats its demands, particularly with regard to an immediate authorisation for consular …

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