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Mohammad Nourizad, a prominent political activist jailed in Tehran’s notorious prison of Evin, in a letter asked Iranians to boycott the presidential election in June. 

Leili Faraji, Mohammad Pourakbari Kermani, Zeinab Sahafi, and Esmaeil Fattahi, four Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey who have been arrested on April 5 face deportation to Iran, sayid Asylum Seekers’ Council in a statement.

The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions next week over a deadly crackdown in November 2019 by Iranian authorities, three diplomats said on Wednesday according to Reuters.

A court in the Kurdistan Region’s capital city of Erbil on Tuesday sentenced an Iranian agent Samira Moradpour to five years in prison, after she tried to kidnap Kurdish journalist and activist Ali Javanmardi.

A group of Iranian army commanders have seized hundreds of hectares of residential lands in Khuzestan, classified documents received by Avatoday show.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday cited “reliable sources” saying Iranian-backed militias have taken over a large number of shops and houses in Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

Some 2,300 trucks filled with “dangerous” and “insecure” fuels are planned to be exported to Iraqi Kurdistan Region from Iran, two sources close to the case revealed to Avatoday.

Iran has started enriching uranium at its underground Natanz plant with a second type of advanced centrifuge, the IR-4, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

Iranian dissidents are condemning a Biden State Department hire they claim is an Iranian regime sympathizer and an advocator for the Islamic regime. 

The United States and Iran have engaged in indirect diplomacy with Europeans and others sending messages about how they might resume compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan sa