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More Than 23 Years in Prison for Writing Satire
A Revolutionary Court has sentenced Kioomars Marzban, a writer and satirist who has been in detention since September 2018, to 23 years and nine months in prison. According to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, he must serve at least 11 years of his sentence. The court also banned him from traveling abroad, publishing his writing and using social networking sites for two years.
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How much time before Iran could have a nuclear bomb?
Iran said on Sunday that it will breach the terms of the nuclear deal it signed with the U.S. and other powers, vowing to enrich uranium beyond the cap set by the 2015 agreement. The enrichment work would break the limits of the deal later on Sunday and the government planned an additional unspecified step within 60 days that would breach other provisions in the agreement...
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Trump on possible war with Iran: 'I don't need exit strategies'
President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. is "not going to need an exit strategy" if war broke out with Iran. "You're not going to need an exit strategy," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, prompting laughter. "I don't need exit strategies."
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The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
On the rare occasions the US mainstream media refer to the US shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a "mistake".
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Iran executes Ministry of Defence official on charges of spying for US
Jalal Hajizavar was convicted by a military court after a probe. His death comes amid tense exchanges between the White House and President Rouhani (pictured).
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US launched cyber attack on Iranian rockets and missiles – reports
Targeted strike on computer-controlled weapons of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard had been planned over weeks
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Obama, others warned Trump that ditching Iran deal could lead to war
To supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, it's no surprise that President Donald Trump is now facing a potential war with Iran. Long before Trump was elected, advocates of the nuclear agreement — including then-President Barack Obama, French President Emmanuel Macron and others — had argued that abandoning the accord carried grave risks that could lead to an armed conflict.
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Military operation against Iran was set before Trump called it off
President Donald Trump said Friday that he called off an attack on Iran just as the US was "cocked & loaded" to strike because he decided there would be too many deaths for a proportionate response to the downing of a US drone earlier this week. "We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights (sic) when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General," Trump tweeted. "10 minutes before the strike I stopped it."
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Iran says it won't wage war, Russia tells U.S. to stop stoking...
President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday Iran would not wage war against any nation, while Russia told the United States it should drop what it called provocative plans to deploy more troops to the Middle East.
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Tehran closes 547 restaurants for breaking 'Islamic principles’
Iranian police close venues for crimes ranging from ‘playing illegal music’ to ‘debauchery’
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Iran War Scenarios
Radio War Nerd (July 24, 2018)
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Iran dismisses possibility of conflict, says does not want war
Iran's top diplomat on Saturday dismissed the possibility of war erupting...
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The Trump Administration Is Thirsty for War, Intelligence Be Damned
It was reported on Monday that the Trump administration has concocted a plan that involves sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter a potential Iranian attack on American forces. Whatever threat may exist is almost entirely of the president’s own design. Since Trump rebuffed allies, experts and his own administration in removing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal last year, tension between the two nations has escalated steadily.
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Pace Pompeo: What if the US is 'Sowing Chaos' in Mideast & Iran is a Status Quo Power?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told NBC that Iran is an active threat to US interests and 'sowing chaos' in the Middle East. It strikes me that exactly the opposite is true. The Islamic Republic of Iran has in recent years, despite its heritage in the 1979 revolution, acted as an Establishment, status quo power. I don't agree with Iranian policy, e.g. its Syria intervention; I'm just acting as a dispassionate analyst and asking if it is really destabilizing. I conclude, not so much.
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America Just Declared War on Iran and Nobody Blinked
After a destabilizing move by Trump, it's no longer a question of if U.S. forces will die but when. By Scott Ritter.
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Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes
After two trials described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair,” Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has dedicated her life to defending Iranian women prosecuted for removing their hijabs in public, has been in the crosshairs of Iran’s theocratic government for years. In 2010, she was convicted of conspiring to harm state security and served half of a six-year sentence.
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Iran lawyer jailed for 38 years, say family
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, her family say. Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all of which she denies. Rights groups strongly criticised the "shocking" sentence against the award-winning human rights activist. Ms Sotoudeh is known for representing women who have protested having to wear the headscarf.
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Warsaw’s Middle Eastern Failure
Recently, the Polish government agreed to host a gathering in Warsaw on the Middle East that was held the day before the Munich Security Conference, which typically brings together all the sides of major conflicts in the world; however, the Polish conference would be exclusively focused on an anti-Iranian agenda and based on the current narratives espoused by the Trump administration and Israel.
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Lawyer Says Iranian Activist Khandan Released, Support Hunger Strikes Ended
Iranian activist Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human-rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been released from custody in Iran, his lawyer said in a post on Facebook on December 23. Lawyer Mohammad Moghimi wrote that following Khandan's release, both Sotoudeh and activist Farhad Meysami ended hunger strikes that were partially motivated by support for Khandan.
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FIFA urged by own rights body to give Iran deadline for allowing...
Global soccer body FIFA has been urged by its own human rights advisory panel to...
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