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Iran says US pullout from nuclear deal ‘fatal blow’ to rule of law

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Tehran: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday that the United States dealt a “fatal blow” to the rule of law at the international level by its “unlawful” withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal five years ago.
Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, made the remarks in a post on his Twitter page one day after the fifth anniversary of the US unilateral pullout from the nuclear deal in 2018, Xinhua news agency reported.
Ever since its withdrawal, the US has failed to reverse its “wrongful” deeds, said the Iranian official, stressing that Iran will continue its “legitimate” remedial measures under the nuclear pact.

The full implementation of the nuclear deal, the main precondition for which is the “effective and lasting” removal of the sanctions, could be resumed should “the reneging party”, the European Union, and E3 group of France, Britain and Germany demonstrate “credible” political will to that effect, he said.
Kani said the opportunity to resume the full implementation of the nuclear deal would not be available forever.
Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with world powers in July 2015, agreeing to put some curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the removal of the sanctions on the country.
The US, however, pulled out of the deal on May 8, 2018 and reimposed its unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to reduce some of its nuclear commitments under the deal.
The talks on the JCPOA’s revival began in April 2021 in Vienna. However, no breakthrough has been achieved after the latest round of talks in August 2022.

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May 9, 2023
Iran hangs two over burning copy of Quran, insulting Prophet

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Tehran: Two men were executed by the Iranian authorities on Monday on charges of blasphemy against Islam.
According to Mizan News Agency, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were hanged for insulting the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (PBUH), burning a copy of the Quran and promoting atheism.
Criticizing Islam can get you killed in Iran. Today 2 Iranian men have been executed for the crime of “insulting Quran and the Prophet, apostasy”. Islamic Republic is ISIS but with oil and that is why the West is still legitimizing this barbaric regime. Otherwise the executions… pic.twitter.com/Kqq1EJI3TI
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) May 8, 2023
What do we know about the charges so far?
As per Iranian media reports, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were arrested in May 2020 for running several anti-religious online platforms.

In March 2021 one of the defendants had confessed to posting the content. Such confessions are believed to have been coerced, according to rights groups based outside of Iran.
Monday’s executions were the latest in a series of executions in the past two weeks for a range of crimes.
Amnesty International said that Iran executes more people annually than any other country in the world except China.
So far this year, at least 203 prisoners have been executed in the country, according to the non-profit Iranian Human Rights Organization.
Two rights groups said in a report last month that Iranian authorities executed 582 individuals last year, a 75 per cent increase from 2021.

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May 8, 2023
Iran hangs Habib Farajollah Chaab

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Tehran: Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Farajollah Chaab was executed on Saturday over charges of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people.
🚨 حکم اعدام فرج‌الله چعب، ملقب به «حبیب اسیود» سرکرده گروهک تروریستی حرکة النضال و طراح اصلی حمله تروریستی به رژه نیروهای مسلح در سال ۱۳۹۷ که منجر به شهادت و زخمی شدن تعداد زیادی از شهروندان شد، صبح امروز به اجرا درآمد.https://t.co/l9DnCdmG81 pic.twitter.com/MbXL7ApH5v
— خبرگزاری میزان (@MizanNewsAgency) May 6, 2023
Forty-eight-year-old Farajollah Chaab was awarded death on March 12 by the Supreme Court. He was tried in 2022 for involvement in an attack on a military parade, in 2018 that killed 25 people, including 12 members of the Revolutionary Guards, and several other explosions.
Farajollah Chaab was detained in Iran since October 2020 after his disappearance during a trip to Turkey. He was later brought to Tehran.

Iran is one of the countries in the world that applies the death penalty the most.
According to AFP, the number of death sentences carried out in Iran during 2022were 582. In order words, it increased by 75%.
جمهوری اسلامی بامداد روز شنبه ۱۶ اردیبهشت «حبیب اسیود» شهروند ایرانی-سوئدی را اعدام کرد.
حبیب اسیود همچون روزنامه‌نگار بی‌گناه روح‌الله زم طی یک عملیات آدمربایی به ایران منتقل شد. او در دادگاهی ناصالح و بدون دادرسی عادلانه محاکمه شد و بیش از ۴ سال را در حبس گذراند.
با توجه به… pic.twitter.com/NUpIC8dp52
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) May 6, 2023
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May 6, 2023
Iran expels four Azerbaijani diplomats in ‘retaliatory’ response

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Tehran: Iran has expelled four Azerbaijani diplomats from Iran after declaring them “persona non grata”, a media report said.
The move was a “retaliatory response” to the expulsion of four Iranian diplomats from Azerbaijan after having been declared “persona non grata” by Baku in April, Iran’s official news agency IRNA said in a report on Friday, without elaborating on the exact timing of the move and its other reasons, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to IRNA, the four Azerbaijani diplomats were working at Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the northwestern city of Tabriz.

In early April, Azerbaijan declared four diplomats of the Iranian embassy in Baku as “persona non grata” due to their activities that were “incompatible with diplomatic status”.
On April 6, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said it had summoned Iran’s ambassador Seyed Abbas Mousavi to inform him that the four should leave the country within 48 hours.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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May 6, 2023
Iran Prez says Syria visit marks turning point in bilateral ties

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Tehran: Ebrahim Raisi, who became the first Iranian President to visit Damascus after the Syrian war erupted in 2011, said on Friday that the landmark two-day trip was a “turning point” in improving bilateral political, economic, trade and security ties.
Raisi told reporters here following his arrival from Syria that the trip was of great importance for both sides and the region after 12 years of resistance by the Syrian people and government against enemies’ conspiracies and seditious acts, Xinhua news agency reported citing local media.
He noted that Iran appreciates Syria’s resistance against the “tough attacks,” and Tehran’s support in the process made Syria and the region believe that Iran is a “strong pillar” they can trust and rely on.

The two sides are capable of enhancing cooperation regarding economic and trade relations, said the President, noting that they have signed 15 documents on cooperation in the fields of producing and distributing energy, establishing joint banks and insurance companies, reducing trade tariffs, enhancing transit among Iran, Iraq and Syria and reviving Syria’s agricultural, industrial and energy sectors.
Raisi had reached Damascus on Wednesday for extensive political and economic talks with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, with a high-level political and economic delegation.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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May 5, 2023
Iran sets up security cameras to dissuade unveiled women

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The Iranian authorities are resorting to using cameras in public places to identify women who violate the country’s hijab law, local media reported.
Obtrusive measures implemented in the aftermath of widespread anti-government protests last year combine the deployment of security cameras with the withholding of public services to violators, effectively replacing the morality police whose acts sparked months of turmoil.
Iranian activists say the measures have failed to make much progress against anti-hijab resistance and may exacerbate economic constraints if they result in the closure of businesses.

For decades, women who refused to wear the hijab were targeted by morality police who patrolled crowded public locations in vans. The vehicle’s male and female crew will be on the lookout for “un-Islamic dress and behaviour.”
A report by Arab News quoted residents saying the vans have mainly gone from the streets of the cities where they used to patrol after the protests presented Iran’s religious leadership with their largest legitimacy problem since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“We are not scared of the regime’s threats. We want freedom … This path will continue until we regain our country from the clerics,” Maryam, a high school girl in Iran’s western Kermanshah city, said, according to the report.
Protests in Iran
Iran has been rocked by sweeping protests since September 16, over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
Her death has since ignited anger over several issues, including the restrictions imposed on personal freedoms and strict rules regarding women’s clothing, as well as the living and economic crisis that Iranians suffer from, not to mention the strict laws imposed by the regime and its political and religious composition in general.

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May 3, 2023
Iran evacuates 65 nationals from Sudan with Saudi Arabia’s help

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Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has said that Iran had evacuated 65 nationals from Sudan with the help of Saudi Arabia.
In a statement posted on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Kanaani on Saturday added that the Iranian evacuees were transferred safely from Khartoum to Port Sudan and then to the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
While praising the Saudi government for its “effective cooperation” and the Sudanese government for its assistance during the evacuation, the spokesman said necessary arrangements had been made to transfer the evacuees from Saudi Arabia to Iran.

A growing number of countries have evacuated citizens from Sudan since fierce clashes broke out between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in mid-April, Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 459 people have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded so far in the fighting in Sudan, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, according to estimates by the WHO and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Saudi Arabia and Iran reached a deal in March to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies and missions in the two countries within two months.
On April 6, the two countries announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with immediate effect.

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April 30, 2023
Saudi Arabia, Iran to reopen embassies ‘within days’

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Beirut: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Saudi Arabia and Iran will reopen their embassies in both countries within days.
This comes after the two countries agreed to restore relations in March after a series of events in 2016 led to the severing of diplomatic relations.
Amir-Abdollahian made the statement during a press conference in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

Abdollahian added that his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, would accept his invitation to visit Tehran pointing out that he had received a similar invitation to visit the Kingdom.
He indicated that the date of the two visits would be agreed upon “through diplomatic channels.”
Earlier this April, the Saudi newspaper “Okaz” revealed the Iranian embassy in Riyadh opened its doors for the first time in seven years.
On April 6 in Beijing, the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia signed a joint statement to begin arrangements to reopen embassies and consulates, expand bilateral relations and cooperation, and resume flights.
These steps come after Saudi Arabia and Iran announced on March 10 the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and the reopening of their embassies, following Chinese mediation, after seven years of tensions.

The relationship began to deteriorate in 2015 after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intervened in the Yemen war after the Iran-aligned Houthi group overthrew the Riyadh-backed government and took control of the capital, Sanaa.
Tensions between the two countries have led to conflicts across the region, including the Syrian Civil War.
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April 29, 2023
Iran says probe shows no toxic substance in student poisoning incidents

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Tehran: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has said its probe found no actual poisoning in the mass reports of students being poisoned at schools across the country.
The Ministry said on Friday in a statement published on its website that no toxic substance was found disseminated at schools after months of investigations into the incidents, during which suspects were either questioned or arrested and transferred to judicial authorities.
It added that the probe found no criminal groups were behind the poisoning cases, but dubious networks on social media which spread rumours to fuel fears and dissatisfaction among students’ parents, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Ministry noted these networks are either being or will be sued, claiming Iran’s enemy has played an evident and undeniable role in provoking turmoil.
During the past months, hundreds of students at dozens of schools across Iran were referred to medical centres with symptoms similar to those of poisoning. Most of the students said they had smelled either an unpleasant or a weird odour before the emergence of the symptoms. The first case was reported in Qom province on November 30, according to reports by Iranian media.
Most of the students were, however, soon released from the hospital after receiving treatment, according to the official news agency IRNA.
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April 29, 2023
Iran court orders Obama, Bush to pay $313m for 2017 ‘terrorist’ attacks

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Tehran: The Iranian court has ordered the United States government and nine individuals and entities, including former Presidents Barack Obama, and George Bush to pay 313 million dollars (Rs 25,60,26,33,150) in compensation for the 2017 attacks carried out by the Islamic State militant group.
On Wednesday, an Iranian court issued the verdict based on complaints from the families of three people killed and six injured during the June 2017 attacks in Tehran, according to the judiciary’s official news website, Al Jazeera reported.
Those convicted in this case include the US government, former Presidents Barack Obama, George Walker Bush, Central Command and its former commander Tommy Franks, the CIA, the Treasury Department, arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin and American Airlines.

The court ruled that 9.95 million dollars (Rs 81,37,95,575) should be paid in compensation for financial damages, while 104 million dollars (Rs 8,50,74,13,200) and 199 million dollars (Rs 16,27,86,07,950) in moral and punitive damages, respectively, for a total of 313 million dollars (Rs 25,60,26,33,150).
On June 7, 2017, the Iranian parliament and the shrine of Imam Khomeini in the capital, Tehran, were subjected to terrorist attacks.
Four gunmen disguised as women entered the parliament and opened fire on the security guards, and gunmen separately attacked the shrine of Imam Khomeini and opened fire on the people inside the compound.
At least 17 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in these attacks, for which the terrorist organization ISIS later claimed responsibility.
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April 27, 2023