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VOA – A U.S. envoy for Iran met Friday with the family of Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February in Iran after being convicted of heading a pro-monarchist group accused of a deadly 2008 bombing. Deputy Special Envoy Abram Paley posted a picture of himself with Sharmahd’s son Shayan and daughter Gazelle on the social …

VOA – Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions remain high with the United States. While highlighted as a symbol of Western imperialism by Iran’s theocracy, the coup unseating Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh — over America’s fears about a possible tilt toward the Soviet …

HRW – On August 21, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that Saleh Nikbakht, the lawyer who represents Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s family in the case of her death in custody, was ordered to appear before Branch 28 of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Reza Amoozad, on August 29. On March 11, Nikbakht had been charged with “propaganda against the state” …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Iranian regime is advancing its ideology and increasing its influence in Shia mosques throughout the United States, while the Biden administration is sitting idly by, presumably still seeking to return to a disastrous nuclear deal, lift sanctions against Iran, and fund the regime to launch more terrorist attacks, further repress its own citizens, and pave the way …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi told a summit of the BRICS group of nations that Tehran is determined to help member states ditch the US dollar in their economic dealings. Raisi was delivering his speech in Johannesburg, South Africa, only a day after BRICS — currently formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China — sent out invitations to Iran, Saudi Arabia, …