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Kameel Ahmady
Iran releases British-Iranian academic on bail
TEHRAN — A British-Iranian anthropologist held in Iran for three months has been released on bail, his wife told state news agency IRNA on Wednesday."Kameel Ahmady was released on Sunday evening on a 500 million (toman, $42,000) bail after three months of temporary detention," IRNA quoted Shafagh Rahmani as saying.Iran confirmed Ahmady's arrest in October, less than three months after the detention of Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah was publicized.French anthropologist Christian Bromberger wrote in August that Ahmady was "recently arrested", in an article published on the French edition of The Conversation website.Author of a book in English titled "In the Name of Tradition: Female Genital Mutilation in Iran", Ahmady holds dual British and...
November 21, 2019

Iran releases British-Iranian academic on bail

Ambassadors to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) attend the IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday. — AFP
IAEA: Iran must explain uranium particles at undeclared site
VIENNA — The UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday urged Iran to explain the presence of uranium particles at an undeclared site, as a landmark deal aimed at curbing Tehran's atomic activities threatens to collapse.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report seen by AFP last week that its inspectors had "detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency".The agency's acting head Cornel Feruta said IAEA and Iranian officials would meet in Tehran next week to discuss the matter, adding that the UN body had not received any additional information."The matter remains unresolved... It is essential that Iran works with the agency to resolve this matter promptly," he said at a meeting of the...
November 21, 2019

IAEA: Iran must explain uranium particles at undeclared site

Iranian environmental activists, from top-left clockwise, Niloufar Bayani, Houman Jokar, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Taher Ghadirian, Morad Tahbaz, and Sepideh Kashani are seen in this file combination picture. — Courtesy photo
Iran environmentalists receive prison sentences of up to 10 years
TEHRAN — Six environmental conservationists accused of "spying" on Iranian military sites have received sentences of up to 10 years in prison, according to state news agency IRNA and Shargh daily.Sentences "from four to 10 years" have been issued for some of the case's suspects, IRNA quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili as saying.Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, a lawyer who represents some of the defendants, told Shargh daily that six of the eight have had their sentences handed down.Aghasi, however, was not present in court as the state has designated its own hand-picked lawyers to represent the defendants.He told Shargh daily that Niloufar Bayani and Morad Tahbaz had received 10-year sentences, while Taher Ghadirian and Houman Jokar had been given eight...
November 21, 2019

Iran environmentalists receive prison sentences of up to 10 years

Iraqi youths waving national flags march through Tahrir Square in the Iraqi capital Baghdad as anti-government protests continued across the country on Wednesday. — AFP
Two protesters killed in Baghdad: Medics, police
BAGHDAD — Two protesters were killed and dozens wounded in overnight clashes with security forces in Iraq's capital Baghdad, security and medical sources said on Thursday.Anti-government demonstrators have spread out from their main protest camp on Tahrir (Liberation) Square onto three bridges linking the two banks of the river Tigris.Security forces have erected concrete barriers on the bridges to hold protesters back, and late on Wednesday they fired tear gas and live ammunition at crowds gathering on the Al-Sinek and Al-Ahrar bridges.One protester was shot dead by a live round and another died from a trauma wound sustained by a tear gas canister.Rights groups have slammed security forces for firing the military-grade gas grenades directly at protesters instead of up in the...
November 21, 2019

Two protesters killed in Baghdad: Medics, police

Adnan Ghaith
Israel again detains Palestinian governor of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces detained the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Thursday, taking him from his home in the city's east for interrogation, a police spokesman said.Adnan Ghaith's apprehension came a day after Israeli authorities closed the offices of two Palestinian Authority-affiliated organizations in Jerusalem.The Palestinian Authority (PA) official has been arrested or detained by Israel at least six times in the past year.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP Ghaith's latest apprehension from his Silwan home was over "Palestinian activity in Jerusalem," without giving further details.Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.It considers the entire city its...
November 21, 2019

Israel again detains Palestinian governor of Jerusalem

Iranian protesters block a road during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the central city of Shiraz in this Nov. 16, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Iran's Guards boast 'timely' action against protesters
TEHRAN — Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Thursday praised the armed forces for taking "timely" action against "rioters" and suggested calm had been restored after days of unrest sparked by a hike in petrol prices.Authorities vowed to arrest leaders of the protests that erupted Friday, in which police stations were attacked, petrol pumps torched and shops looted, and which Iran has blamed on a plot by foreign enemies.While the internet remained mostly blocked for a fifth day, state TV showed footage of what it said were pro-government rallies to celebrate the defeat of the "conspiracy".Crowds in cities including Qom and Isfahan chanted "death to seditionists, death to America" and "the blood in our veins is a gift to our leader".In the...
November 21, 2019

Iran's Guards boast 'timely' action against protesters

An Iranian man stands at the burnt branch of a local bank that was damaged during demonstrations against petrol price hikes in Shahriar, west of Tehran, west of Tehran, on Wednesday. — AFP
EU urges end to violence against Iran's protesters
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Thursday called on Iran to show "maximum restraint" in handling protests that have rocked the country, leaving several people dead, and urged an end to violence.In reaction, Tehran said Europe should refrain from intervening in Iran's affairs and instead focus on delivering promises under the 2015 nuclear deal.Demonstrations erupted in sanctions-hit Iran on Friday, hours after the price of petrol was raised by as much as 200 percent, and unrest spread to scores of urban centers, with officials confirming five deaths.A spokeswoman for the EU expressed condolences to the families of the dead and called for dialogue to resolve the tensions."We expect Iran's security forces to exercise maximum restraint in handling the protests and for...
November 21, 2019

EU urges end to violence against Iran's protesters

Palestinian employees of Palestine TV channel inspect a notice of closure at the door of the station's office after it has been raided by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem on Wednesday. — AFP
Israel closes Palestinian organizations in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities closed several Palestinian organizations in Jerusalem on Wednesday, including a television channel, an Israeli minister and officials from the organizations said.The offices of Palestine TV — a channel funded by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority — and an office of the Palestinian ministry of education were given orders to close for six months, staff members said on condition of anonymity.The director of the Al-Araz production company that hosts Palestine TV was temporarily arrested, while a correspondent for the channel was summoned for questioning, these Palestinian sources said.Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan confirmed the closure of offices used by Palestine TV and the education ministry.Israel captured east Jerusalem in a...
November 21, 2019

Israel closes Palestinian organizations in Jerusalem

Israeli Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) political alliance leader and retired General Benny Gantz gives a statement ahead of a midnight deadline in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on Wednesday. — AFP
New Israel elections loom as Gantz says can't form govt
JERUSALEM — Israel edged ever closer to a third general election in a year Wednesday, as Benny Gantz announced his Blue and White coalition — winner of the most seats in September's national poll — was unable to form a government.The centrist former army general, whose party gained one more seat than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in those elections, said he had tried everything during his 28-day negotiation period to secure a majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament."I raised every stone to try and form a national unity government," he said in a speech after informing President Reuven Rivlin he would be handing back the mandate."I ran into a wall of losers who did everything to prevent Israeli citizens from benefiting from a...
November 21, 2019

New Israel elections loom as Gantz says can't form govt

A new housing construction site is seen in the Israeli settlement of Elazar, near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday. — AFP
Arab League to meet Monday on US shift on Israel settlements
CAIRO — The Arab League said it is to hold an urgent meeting on Monday on the US announcement that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal.Hossam Zaki, the pan-Arab body's deputy secretary general, said several members had backed a Palestinian Authority call for a ministerial meeting.The PA's permanent representative to the Arab League has condemned Washington's change of position — announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — as "illegal".Pompeo said on Monday that after legal consultations, the US had concluded the establishment of settlements was "not, per se, inconsistent with international law".The Cairo-based Arab League has said the US shift was an "extremely adverse development." — AFP
November 20, 2019

Arab League to meet Monday on US shift on Israel settlements

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