Iran

The EU top envoy to Iran nuclear talks said on Wednesday he was "quite sure" an agreement would be reached as the negotiations adjourned for a week, Reuters reported.

Members of the European Parliament released a statement on Monday, calling for the immediate release of Mohammad Nourizad, a prominent dissident and human rights activist in Ira

Three political prisoners from Iran's Ahvazi Arab minority have been subjected to torture and are taken to an unknown location, Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) said in a statement released on Monday.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened the Islamic Republic's leader Ali Khamenei that he would boycott the elections if they did not accept him as a presidential candidate.

A group of Iranian lawyers released a statement to protest a lawsuit filed against Farzaneh Zilabi, a labor rights lawyer representing several workers of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company, local reports said.

New documents stolen from inside Iran in 2018 show that the country was ready to quickly reach a nuclear bomb by late 2003, a Washington Post report said.

Some 174 Lecturers from Tehran's Sharif University of Technology called the Iranian government to release Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, two of the university's imprisoned students.

A clash between an armed Baluch group and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps killed and injured several Baluch citizens and Iranian forces in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, Rasanak news agency reported.

Atsa Ahmadaei-Rafsanjani, an Iranian citizen from the minority Baháʼí Faith, is convicted on multiple charges and has given an 8-year prison sentence in total by Iranian Revolutionary Court, Baháʼí activists told Avatoday.

Iran has enriched uranium to 63 percent, higher than the announced 60 percent that already complicated talks to revive its nuclear deal with world powers, a report by the UN nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.