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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

Residents of Rushdie Suspect’s Lebanese Village Say Incident Has Little to Do With Them

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death. The logo of Lebanon's Iran-armed Hezbollah group adorns small monuments…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Residents of Rushdie suspect's Lebanese village say incident has little to do with them

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death.

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Iran denies role in Salman Rushdie attack but claims author is to blame

Foreign ministry spokesperson blames author and supporters after stabbing that left him with ‘life-changing’ injuries

The Guardian - UK

Iran hosts drone tournament with Russia, Belarus and Armenia

The competition will last for two weeks and is aimed at testing the drones’ reconnaissance and fire-guiding abilities.

Al Jazeera

Factbox: The three major issues bedevilling talks on reviving Iran nuclear deal

Iran and the United States are struggling to overcome divisions on three major issues in indirect talks on revival of a 2015 nuclear deal while months of negotiations have entered a crucial stage.

Reuters

Sunak Calls for Designation of Iran Revolutionary Guards as Terrorist after Rushdie Attack

Rishi Sunak, one of two candidates seeking to become Britain's next prime minister, said Friday's attack on author Salman Rushdie should serve as a wake-up call to the West over Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Indian-born author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Sunak: Rushdie attack a ‘wake-up call’ to the West over Iran threat

The Tory leadership contender said there may be a case for proscribing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Independent UK

Rushdie attack a 'wake-up call' on Iran, says UK PM candidate Sunak

Reuters

Bobby Ghosh: Bolton plot should be a warning on Iran nuclear talks

The Iranian regime has a long, dishonorable history of assassination plots against dissidents and detractors abroad, but commissioning a hit against a former U.S. national security adviser represents a raising of the bar in brazenness. The revelation that a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted to have John…

Tribune News Service

Iran Brands US Claim of Assassination Plot 'Fiction'

Iran dismissed as "fiction" Thursday US allegations it had plotted to kill former White House national security adviser John Bolton in retaliation for the assassination of one of its top commanders. The US claim comes at a crunch moment in talks on reviving a nuclear deal between Iran and major…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US accuses Iranian operative of plotting to kill John Bolton

Justice Department says IRGC member offered $300,000 to assassinate Donald Trump’s former national security adviser.

Al Jazeera

Russia launches Iranian satellite into space from Kazakhstan base

The launch signals the beginning of ‘strategic cooperation’ between the two countries in the space industry, Iran says.

Al Jazeera

Republicans Urge Biden to Deny Entry Visa for Iran’s Raisi

Several Republican senators have urged the US administration to deny visas for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September.

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Iranian MPs Want to Ask Supreme Leader to Change Fatwa against Nuclear Arms

An Iranian deputy said that lawmakers may request that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei retract the "fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons." The ILNA news agency reported that MP Mohammed-Reza Sabbaghian Bafghi warned: "We will ask the Supreme Leader to change his strategy and fatwa on the prohibition of producing nuclear weapons if…

The Guardian - UK

German-Iranian man facing death sentence on terror charges mounts final defence

Jamshid Sharmahd faces death sentence at end of six-day trial in Tehran

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Prepares to Launch New Satellite Carrier

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh unveiled Monday plans to send a new homegrown satellite carrier into space. Hajizadeh told Iran’s official news agency IRNA that Iran will put new satellites into orbit with its Qaem satellite carrier, which runs on…

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Iran Announces Thwarting Attack on ‘Sensitive’ Center in Isfahan

An arrested Israeli spy network had plans to explode one of the “sensitive” centers in Iran's central Isfahan province, revealed Iran’s Supreme National Security Council a few hours after a similar statement by the cleric-led country’s Intelligence Ministry. In a short statement on Saturday night, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said that…

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The Guardian - UK

MPs claim Foreign Office ‘inaction’ on sanctioning Iranians for hostage-taking

Officials involved in arrest and intimidation of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe named in Commons

The Guardian - UK

My view of Liz Truss? She brought home my wife, Nazanin – then she failed her

Those responsible for her imprisonment have still not been sanctioned, despite the Foreign Office knowing their identities, says Richard Ratcliffe

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden Says he Would Keep IRGC on Terrorism List

US President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as he began a trip to the Middle East. Speaking in an interview with Israel's Channel 12 TV that was recorded before he left Washington on Tuesday but aired…

Reuters

Biden says he would use force as 'last resort' to keep Iran from nuclear weapons

U.S. President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon as he began a trip to the Middle East.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Former Iranian FM Responds to Criticism

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is again the focus of internal debate between supporters and opponents of the previous government's approach to nuclear negotiations. Zarif responded to criticism against him in an Instagram post, following an interview stating his reasons for not running for presidential elections. In an…

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Says it Neutralized Terrorist Cell, 4 of its Members Killed

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said its forces had neutralized a "terrorist cell" in Salmas near the Turkish border. The IRGC issued a statement announcing that its ground forces tasked with protecting the border triangle with Turkey and the Kurdistan region of Iraq "neutralized a terrorist cell after intelligence…

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Says Won’t Allow its Ranks to be Infiltrated

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will not allow the entry of "virus and termites" into the military institution, asserted the deputy of the Supreme Leader's representative, Hossein Tayyebifar. Tayyebifar, the IRGC's deputy for clerical affairs, said the IRGC should train forces who will not hesitate to pull the trigger.…

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