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Al-Monitor – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country’s plan to scale back on the commitments it pledged under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a “phased” process that leaves the window to diplomacy open. Yet Araghchi, who was also a senior negotiator in the marathon nuclear talks culminating in the landmark accord in 2015, hit …

Al-Monitor – Iranians, who have been under pressure from the United States over the country’s nuclear program, are enjoying discussing someone else’s nuclear problems for a change. The recently released HBO miniseries “Chernobyl,” focusing on the catastrophic nuclear accident in 1986, has proved to be wildly popular in Iran. Despite four decades of enmity between Iran and the United States, Iranians …

Summary Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer. Over the years Nasrin Sotoudeh has defended the rights of women, against the death penalty of minors, of political activists, journalists and religious minorities. The European parliament awarded her the Sakharov human rights prize in 2012. French President, Emmanuel Macron, invited Nasrin Sotoudeh to be part of G7 advisory council on gender equality. at the Elysee Palace in Paris with Macron on February 19, 2019. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been imprisoned numerous times because of defending vulnerable people and groups in the Iranian society, on unfair grounds and without a legal trial. Nasrin Sotoudeh is a national hero and a role model for many Iranian citizens.

Radiofarda – Iran’s tax collection in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (beginning March 21) shows a 28% increase compared with the same period in the previous year, Iran’s Minister of Economy has claimed. Without providing details, Farhad Dezhpasand said on Tuesday, June 25, the government managed to collect 240 trillion rials (approximately $2 billion based on …

Radiofarda – Iraqi President Barham Saleh said Wednesday his country must not be dragged into another conflict in the Middle East, as tensions rise over its neighbor Iran. “We have had four decades of challenge and turmoil. We do not want to be embroiled in another war,” he said at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs think-tank in …