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Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal leaves for Iran; to assess progress of Chabahar port

Located in the Sistan-Balochistan province on the energy-rich Iran's southern coast, the Chabahar port is being developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan to boost trade ties.

The Hindu

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Grundberg’s Plans to Expand UN Truce Arouses Yemeni Apprehension

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, in his latest UN Security Council briefing, stirred anxiety among Yemenis by announcing plans to expand the humanitarian and military truce in Yemen. Houthis stand to benefit the most from the improved truce terms, Yemeni politicians told Asharq Al-Awsat, recalling that the Iran-backed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Bobby Ghosh: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power

My Iranian friends take great pride in the enormous global influence of their cultural heritage. From the Taj Mahal in India to American greeting cards with quotations from Rumi, the markers of Persian civilization are ancient and modern, sublime and ridiculous — but above all, ubiquitous.

Tribune News Service

Sir Salman Rushdie’s attacker ‘surprised’ to learn of the author’s survival

Hadi Matar said Sir Salman was ‘someone who attacked Islam’ but did not confirm that his actions were driven by Iran’s fatwa.

The Independent UK

Bolton accuses Biden administration of staying quiet on assassination plot to please Iran

Former White House official says DoJ notified him long before making public comment about the arrest

The Independent UK

Iraqi PM calls meeting of senior politicians to end crisis

Iraq’s caretaker prime minister has held a meeting of senior political leaders and party representatives in an effort to end a monthslong crisis amid a power struggle between rival Shiite blocs

The Independent UK

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What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at the time. Khomeini accused Rushdie’s 1988…

The Conversation

Tehran Ready to Swap Prisoners, Urges US to Free Jailed Iranians

Iran is ready to swap prisoners with the United States, its foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday, calling on President Joe Biden's administration to "act instead of performing theatrical shows". Tehran has sought the release of over a dozen Iranians in the United States, including seven Iranian-American…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran ready to swap prisoners, calls on U.S. to free jailed Iranians - Fars

Iran is ready to swap prisoners with the United States, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday, calling on President Joe Biden's administration to "act instead of performing theatrical shows".

Reuters

Houthis Threaten Humanitarian Organizations, Refrain from Providing Aid to Yemenis

The Iran-backed Houthi militias have shirked all responsibilities regarding emergency responses and aid provision to 3,000 families in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Salman Rushdie moderator Henry Reese says he won’t be ‘impeded from doing what we set out to do’

Co-founder of City of Asylum, which offers safety, shelter and support to persecuted writers says they will not be impeded from doing what they set out to do

The Independent UK

Yemen Calls for Int’l Pressure on Houthis to End Taiz Siege

The legitimate government in Yemen reiterated its call on the international community to pressure the Iran-backed Houthi militias to join in good faith efforts to achieve peace in the war-torn country. United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg acknowledged before the Security Council that no progress has been reached…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US weighs EU plan to revive Iran nuclear deal abandoned by Trump

The Biden administration is weighing Iran’s response to a European Union proposal aimed at reviving the 2015 international nuclear agreement, with officials on both sides of the Atlantic signaling the possibility that a deal could emerge now after more than a year of false starts.

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Afghanistan's Olympic flag-bearer, Kimiya Yousofi, arrives in Australia one year after the fall of Kabul

The extraordinary life of Afghanistan's Olympic flag-bearer takes another dramatic twist a year after Kabul fell to the Taliban.

The Hindu

Taking responsibility: On Salman Rushdie attack in New York

Iran might not be directly involved in the attack on Rushdie, but it must revoke the fatwa

Asharq Al-Awsat

34-Year-Old Woman Is Iran’s First Monkeypox Case

Iranian authorities announced Tuesday the first case of monkeypox in the country, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report said health authorities quarantined a 34-year-old woman living in the southwestern city of Ahvaz. Pedram Pakaeen, health ministry spokesperson, said the patient and her family members informed doctors after she…

Reuters

U.S. studying Iran's response to EU proposal to save nuclear deal -State Dept

The United States is studying Iran's response to the European Union's proposal to save a nuclear deal and is sharing its views with the bloc, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Tuesday, after receiving Iran's comments from the EU.

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The Conversation

Salman Rushdie attack: the legacy of the decades-old fatwa on the author, explained

In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie. More than three decades later, at a literary event in New York state, a man who was…

Reuters

EU, U.S. say they're studying Iran's response to nuclear proposal

The European Union and United States said on Tuesday they were studying Iran's response to what the EU has called its "final" proposal to save a 2015 nuclear deal after Tehran called on Washington to show flexibility.

Evening Standard

The 7 defining moments of Salman Rushdie’s life

As the author lies in hospital with life-changing injuries, Amy Francombe looks back at his controversial career and how he came to have a fatwa on his head

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Judge: Lebanon Can’t Intervene in Fakhoury’s Suit, Can’t Be Sued

A judge on Monday denied a family’s attempt to sue Lebanon on allegations that the country’s security agency kidnapped and tortured their family member before he died in the US, and that the agency could not intervene in the case. Amer Fakhoury, a Lebanese American man, died in the United…

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU, US Say They’re Studying Iran’s Response to Nuclear Proposal

Dynamite News

VIRAL VIDEO: Hollywood actor Johnny Depp lookalike Amin Sa'les spotted in Iran

Sa'les was attending a religious ceremony in Tabriz, Iran, when his video was captured, and it first appeared on TikTok. Read more on Dynamite News:

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Submits a ‘Written Response’ in Nuclear Deal Talks

Iran said Tuesday it submitted a “written response” to what has been described as a final roadmap to restore its tattered nuclear deal with world powers. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency offered no details on the substance of its response, but suggested that Tehran still wouldn't take the European Union-mediated…

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