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Iran-HRM – It would seem that the Iranian regime is stepping up pressure against political prisoners by using non-political violent inmates to attack them. There have been reports on some rights activists and political prisoners who were brutalized in prison during the past few days. Particularly, families of political prisoners are increasingly concerned about the safety of their loved ones …

RFL/RE — The U.S. Treasury Department on July 18 imposed additional sanctions on Iran that target its nuclear-enrichment program.They are the first restrictive measures since Tehran said earlier this month that it would increase enriched uranium levels to above those allowed under the terms of a 2015 nuclear accord.The blacklist includes five people and an international group of companies in Iran, Belgium, …

VOA – Iran signaled Thursday that it was willing to take steps to reduce the tensions over its nuclear program with the Trump administration.  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters in New York that Tehran would be open to more intrusive inspections of its nuclear program if Washington lifted its economic sanctions.   But the offer, which Zarif described as “a substantial …

RFL/RE – Iran has denied that a U.S. warship downed an Iranian drone in the strategic Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi tweeted on July 19 that Tehran has “not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else.”A spokesman for Iran’s armed forces said on July 19 that all …

HRW – Iran’s judiciary has just confirmed the arrest of Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian anthropologist, in Tehran. Media sources had earlier reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested Adelkhah, a researcher at the Paris-based academic institute Sciences Po, at her home on June 7. She has been detained ever since. The accusations against her remain unclear, …