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Alireza Akbari: The British-Iranian Executed by Tehran

Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday, after sentencing the former Iranian deputy defense minister to death on charges of spying for Britain. Here are some details about Akbari and his case: - He served as deputy defense minister when Ali Shamkhani…

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Factbox-Alireza Akbari: the British-Iranian executed by Tehran

Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday, after sentencing the former Iranian deputy defence minister to death on charges of spying for Britain.

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British-Iranian man appears in heavily edited confession aired on Iranian TV

Alireza Akbari, who was sentenced to death for allegedly spying for MI6, gave reports on Iran’s nuclear programme, he says in TV interview

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Iran Video Links Detained British-Iranian to Death of Nuclear Scientist

Iranian state media published a video on Thursday in which British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, sentenced to death for spying, said he played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist. In a separate audio recording broadcast by BBC Persian on Wednesday, Akbari said he was tortured…

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Russia’s security chief discusses Ukraine, trade on visit to Iran

Nikolai Patrushev meets his Iranian counterpart and Iran’s president, as Moscow and Tehran look to deepen ties.

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Power or profit: Why Iran is helping Russia wage war in Ukraine

Ukraine says captured Iranian drones were likely delivered to Russia after the war began

The Independent UK

Russian security official visits Iran in push to deepen ties amid Ukraine war

A senior Russian security official met Iranian leaders in Tehran on Wednesday and the two countries pledged closer ties in the face of Western pressure over Russia's war in Ukraine.

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Iranian Lawmakers Disagree on Giving Gov’t Green Light to Revive Nuclear Deal

Iranian parliamentarians found themselves in disagreement on green-lighting the cleric-led country’s nuclear deal negotiating team concluding any deal with the US without first gaining the legislators’ approval. The dispute comes two days after Iran sent a package of proposals in response to the “final text” put forward by the European…

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Tehran Denies Making Demands That Deviate From 2015 Nuclear Agreement

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday that Tehran did not raise any demands that go beyond the nuclear agreement in the indirect talks with Washington. His comments came a week after the failure of the latest round of diplomatic efforts mediated by the European Union in Doha.…

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Nuclear talks between US and Iran to resume 'in coming days', Tehran and EU say

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks Tuesday on Iran's nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran's oil exports as one of the issues to be raised. It comes as Iran's foreign ministry and the EU's chief diplomat flagged the resumption of…

France 24

Iran says its nuclear development to continue until the West changes its "illegal behaviour" - IRNA

Iran will further develop its nuclear programme until the West changes its "illegal behaviour", said Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani in a meeting with the EU's top diplomat, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.

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G7 Urge Tehran to Bring Successful Conclusion To Nuclear Talks

The G7 group of nations urged on Saturday Iran to benefit from the current opportunity and facilitate the nuclear talks, which have been veering between success and failure for months now. “It is high time for Iran to seize the opportunity and bring negotiations which started in Vienna more than…

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Nuclear talks: Iran’s Raisi launches major economic reform

President announced reforms a day before the EU’s coordinator for nuclear deal negotiations arrived in Tehran.

Al Jazeera

Iran's Shamkhani Receives Iraqi Speaker, Asserts Response to Any Action that Harms National Security

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Tehran would react swiftly and decisively to any action to harm his country's security from Iraqi territory. Shamkhani spoke during his reception of the Iraqi Speaker, Mohammad al-Halbousi, who arrived on his first visit to Tehran since…

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Iran's Shamkhani Links Erbil Attack to Vienna Talks

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani implicitly linked diplomatic efforts at the Vienna talks for reviving the nuclear agreement, and the Revolutionary Guards adopting a “ballistic missile” attack on Erbil against what Tehran labeled as “Israeli centers.” Shamkhani pointed to Iran using both the field and…

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Iran Will Stay in Nuclear Talks until ‘Strong Deal’ Is Reached, Says Top Security Official

Iran will stay in the Vienna nuclear talks until its demands are met and a "strong agreement" is reached, Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani said on Monday. Talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear pact face the prospect of collapse after a last-minute Russian demand forced world powers to…

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Iran will stay in nuclear talks till 'strong deal' is reached - top security official

Iran will stay in the Vienna nuclear talks until its demands are met and a "strong agreement" is reached, Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani said on Monday.

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Iran Says Lack of US Decision on Nuclear Deal Complicates Talks

The United States does not have the will to reach an agreement to revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran at talks in Vienna where it is insisting on "unacceptable proposals", Iran's top security official, Ali Shamkhani, said on Thursday. The 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Iran in return…

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Iran Seeks 'Creative Ways' to Nuke Deal after Russian Demand

A top Iranian official said Monday that his country is seeking “creative ways” to restore its nuclear deal with world powers after Russia's foreign minister linked sanctions on Moscow over its war on Ukraine to the ongoing negotiations. The tweet by Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's powerful Supreme National…

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Bitter Experience with US Is Reason for Iran to Push for Sustainable Nuclear Deal, Says Top Official

"Bitter experience" with broken US promises has made it inevitable that Iran will push to defend its interests by securing a "reliable" nuclear agreement, its top security official said on Wednesday, according to the Nour-news website. "Bitter experience with the US breach of promises and European inaction have made it…

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Tehran, Damascus Hold Security Coordination Meeting to Confront US Moves

Security talks between Iran and Syria were conducted in Tehran at a time when Syria’s Special Adviser at the Republic Presidency Luna al-Shebel announced Damascus having information about extremist fighters leaving the Middle East region and heading to Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Speaking to Sputnik on Monday, al-Shebel revealed that the…

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Iran: 'Significant Progress' Seen in Vienna Nuclear Talks

Talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers have made "significant progress", Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday at a weekly press briefing. Separately, Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani said talks with European negotiators were ongoing and would continue while…

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Iran Says Verification, Guarantees Integral to ‘Good Deal’

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, has indicated that verification and guarantees would be among the things needed to reach an agreement to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal. This comes at a time when British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss has informed her Iranian counterpart that it…

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Tehran Accuses the West of ‘Tampering with Text, Time’

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has accused Western states of “tampering with the text and playing for time” at the Vienna negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal. However, he said that arriving at a good deal was at hand. For his part, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s…

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Tehran Demands 'Balance of Commitments’ at Vienna talks

Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said on Sunday that Tehran and Washington are still far from achieving the required “balance” in commitments at the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal. “Despite limited progress in the Vienna talks, we are still far from…

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