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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 …

British-Iranian dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, born December 26th 1978, is currently imprisoned in Iran, and has been imprisoned since April 3rd 2016. She stands accused of plotting against the Iranian government and spreading propaganda against Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a Canadian global information and news network. The charitable foundation has been providing practical …

Radiofarda – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again slammed the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement saying the Israeli army is the only force ready to fight Iran. Netanyahu also insisted he was the only leader at the time of the nuclear deal to oppose it. He was speaking to members of the National Security College at his office on …

Radiofarda – On July 13 the exiled Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin, MEK held the its annual event named Free Iran. The event was held at the newly inaugurated headquarters of the MEK in Albania. The headquarters is named ‘Ashraf 3’ . A similar complex existed in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein’s regime but was closed down by Iraqi authorities …

Radiofarda – The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Abbas Mousavi, has denied rumors that said the United States had sent a message to Iran via Russia. Mousavi said noted that, “there are no negotiations going on between Iran and the United States at any level.” Mousavi was apparently denying social media reports that said Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif …