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Al-Monitor – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday that his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, would travel to Turkey next week amid ongoing Russian efforts to convene the top Turkish, Syrian and Russian diplomats. Speaking in Rwanda, the third stop of his Africa trip, Cavusoglu said he would meet with Abdollahian next Tuesday, and “the Iranian President can also visit Turkey in the …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s state news agency IRNA said on Thursday Alireza Akbari, a former defense ministry official sentenced to death for spying for Britain, passed sensitive information to MI6 about an Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in 2020 and other top officials. Akbari, who served as a deputy defense minister during the tenure of former president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), was sentenced …

Iranwire – On the evening of November 21, 2022, inmates gathered in Hall 1 in the women’s ward of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison to attend a hybrid theater/puppetry play that was written, directed and performed by prisoners jailed for their activities in support of civil and human rights. Sixteen inmates contributed to this one-time performance, which paid homage to Iranian …

Iranwire – The months-long nationwide protests in Iran demanding fundamental structural reforms to make the government more accountable underline the “grave risks” for autocracies of imagining that brutal repression will bring stability, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in its annual world report on human rights. Protests erupted across Iran after the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, following her …

Iranwire – Iranian journalist Nasim Sultan Beygi has been arrested at Tehran’s international airport while she was trying to leave Iran, her mother says, amid an intensifying crackdown on media in the country Iran Jalili tweeted on January 11 that the arrest took place the previous night. “Her phone was turned off when she went to hand over her belongings …