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- Biden administration denies Iranian state media report of prisoner-swap agreement with Tehran that would free four Americans
White House chief of staff Ron Klain has denied a report by Iran’s state-owned television broadcaster of a prisoner-swap agreement, saying work remains ongoing to free four Americans who had been accused by Tehran of spying. - ‘Rattled by a female referee in shorts’: Iranian state TV ‘censors lineswoman’s legs’ during Premier League matchA civil rights group in Iran has reacted after local broadcasters repeatedly censored the legs of a female English Premier League official.
- Second wrestler faces execution over ‘murder during mass brawl’ amid pleas for ‘criminal’ Iran regime to be banned from OlympicsThe vice president of the Iranian Wrestling Federation has pleaded for a stay of execution for Mehdi Ali Hosseini, who has been found guilty of a murder that reportedly took place more than five years ago during a mass brawl.
- Iran asks Interpol to help arrest Trump and 47 other US officials over 2020 killing of General Soleimani – judiciary spokesmanIran has requested that Interpol issue a ‘Red Notice’ for Donald Trump and 47 other officials, over their “role” in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani last January, said judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaeili.
- Iranian footballer hit with 6-month ban for 'eye-slant' celebration in Asian clash but star insists gesture is tribute to nephewIssa Alekasir was handed a six-month ban from football hours before his Persepolis team faced Al Nassr in Saturday’s Asian Champions League semifinal after his trademark goal celebration was deemed “discriminatory.”
- Iran will carry on sending more fuel to Venezuela if requested by Maduro govtTehran is ready to continue fuel shipments to crisis-stricken Venezuela if its government requests that it does so, the Foreign Ministry said, as an Iranian tanker flotilla unloaded its cargo in Caracas’s ports.
- US threatens MILITARY FORCE against Iranian tankers bound for Caracas – Venezuelan envoy to UNIranian oil tankers heading to Venezuela are facing an imminent threat of a US armed attack in what Caracas labels a “crime of aggression and extermination,” the country’s envoy to the United Nations has warned.
- Gunpoint diplomacy: US to ‘snap back' all UN sanctions on Iran if expiring arms embargo isn’t renewedTwo years after spectacularly exiting the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the US has threatened to trigger a return of all UN sanctions – once lifted under those accords – if it doesn’t renew an arms embargo set to expire in October.
- Nuclear deal will ‘die forever’ if US extends conventional arms embargo – Iran’s security council chiefA top Iranian official has warned that the US extending the ban on conventional arms sales to Iran would be the last nail in the coffin for the 2015 nuclear deal. He called on the EU to choose between “dignity” and “humiliation.”
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