alarabiya – US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said on Sunday that the Iranians …
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Iranwire – On Tuesday, August 17, a single US dollar was trading for around 26,900 tomans on Tehran’s open market. This was the third day in a row the dollar was inching towards 27,000 tomans apiece. But it has yet to quite cross that threshold. A small group of foreign currency investors in Iran might be happy, under the illusion …
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Iranwire – A grieving mother has been brutally attacked by security forces while paying tribute to her son, who was killed during the nationwide November 2019 protests. Nahid Shirpisheh, whose 28-year-old son Pouya Bakhtiari was killed on November 16, 2019, described on Instagram what happened. On Wednesday, August 18, she and a group of human rights activists, including other grieving mothers, were taking …
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Iran Human Rights (IHR) – 22-year-old Ali Chebishat was arrested on security charges more than a year ago and has been held in the custody of intelligence services in Ahvaz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, 22-year-old Ahvaz native, Ali Chebishat was arrested on 26 July 2020 and has been held in the custody of intelligence …
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Al-Monitor – The United Kingdom, France and Germany expressed their “grave concern” over Iran’s reported increase in uranium metal and production of enriched uranium, warning that time is running out to negotiate a return to the Iranian nuclear agreement. The United Nation’s atomic watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — told member states this week Iran had enriched uranium up to 60% …
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Al-Monitor – Iran “is no Stalin-era Soviet Union,” read a statement issued by Iran’s National Union of Theater Directors, addressing Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, the proposed minister of culture in the new administration of hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The statement was part of growing outrage against an 80-page document released by the proposed minister outlining his vision for the future of Iranian art and culture. Esmaili, 46, particularly lashed out …
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