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lobelog – The war in Syria is a nightmare. It’s a nightmare for all the civilians who suffer from constant aerial bombardment, who are trapped without food and medical assistance inside crumbling cities, who experience the retribution of either the Islamic State or the regime in Damascus. It’s a nightmare for those who try to escape and face the prospect of …

PayvandNews – The recent appointment of Iranian-American Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as Persian spokesperson for the US Department of State is likely to help improve the dialogue between Washington and Tehran. Nowrouzzadeh, who was born in Iran and moved with her family to the US as a child, is well known for her public activity aimed at improving relations between the United …

gethampshire – A human rights organisation is calling on the government to speak out on behalf of a man whose wife has been jailed in Iran in a case it claims has been ‘a complete travesty of justice throughout’. Amnesty International has launched a petition calling on Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to publicly raise the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has …

RFL/RE – A Lebanese information-technology (IT) expert detained in Iran for more than a year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $4.2 million, his supporters say. Nizar Zakka, a Washington resident, was detained in September 2015 in Tehran after attending a government-organized conference on entrepreneurship and employment, where he was a panelist. Iran’s state-controlled television and …

RFL/RE – The Iranian president has met with his Cuban counterpart and his older brother and predecessor during a visit in Havana. Hassan Rohani sat down with Cuba’s 90-year-old retired president, Fidel Castro, on September 19. Rohani met separately with President Raul Castro, who took over leadership of Cuba’s government in 2006. Officials did not comment on the talks. Iran’s …