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\u201cAfghans denounce Iran police after refugees killed in car blaze,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack boxes of downed Ukrainian plane of \u2018no help\u2019, Iran claims,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, June 6, 2020.\u00a0 Were they manipulated?\u00a0 But Iran says it will transfer the boxes of Flight 752 to another country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an unprecedented move, the Iranian Judiciary has explained for the first time how it has spent the interest earned on the bonds deposited into its accounts by those implicated in criminal and political cases. However, analysts, political figures and social media users in Iran are still sceptical about these accounts and their transactions. Mizan News, the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Judiciary reported on Friday June 5 that the interest on the bonds for the year 1398 which ended on 20 March has been 4.3 trillion rials ($102 million) out of which some 4 trillion rials have already been spent, ostensibly on social and economic development.\u201d And for other purposes.\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s Judiciary Makes Disclosures About Its Hidden Funds,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least three Americans are left in Iranian custody. Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian environmentalist with US and British citizenship, is serving a 10-year sentence for espionage charges. Businessman Siamak Namazi is held in Evin prison on trumped-up charges and his 84-year-old father Baquer Namazi, a former UN official, is out on medical furlough but unable to leave the country.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran demanded Florida doctor in exchange for Michael White,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al Monitor, June 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Notice also that Iran doesn\u2019t call the persons they are holding as hostages\u2014they instead are exchanged as a \u201chumanitarian\u201d gesture in exchange for \u201chostages\u201d that other countries hold.\u00a0 But these situations are easy to see through\u2014just examine the evidence for any particular person held by any country.\u00a0 The media can also do this and needs to be more clear in presenting this information so the public can more easily see who a legitimate prisoner and who is a hostage.\u00a0 See \u201cIran confirms talks ‘months ago’ with Richardson over White’s release,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, June 5, 2020, in which FM spokesman Abbas Mousavi said \u201cWe have always responded positively to humanitarian efforts that would lead to the release of Iranian hostages in the United States and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran sanctions case against Pilatus banker Ali Sadr Hasheminejad being dropped,\u201d<\/a> Matthew Vella, Malta Today, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cPS752 catastrophe in Iran: Tehran claims investigation into crash nearly complete,\u201d<\/a> 112 Ukraine, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Is the First Country to Announce a Second Wave of Coronavirus,\u201d<\/a> Jubin Katiraie, Iran Focus, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

This article underlines the difficulty in getting Iran to peacefully give up the three U.S. hostages it continues to hold.\u00a0 See the full article, but here is a relevant section.\u00a0 \u201cA third complicating factor to another U.S.-Iran deal is Iran\u2019s apparent lack of interest in the release or exoneration of 16 Iranians who are either in U.S. detention, subject to home confinement after release or under federal prosecution in U.S. courts for Iran-related offenses.\u00a0 Neither Zarif nor other Iranian officials have mentioned the names of any of the 16 in their occasional public statements calling for the release of Iranians prosecuted in the U.S.\u00a0 Slattery said he has asked Iranian officials for a list of Iranian citizens held against their will or charged with criminal offenses in the U.S. but has not received one.\u00a0 A U.S. source familiar with Richardson\u2019s efforts to free Wang and White told VOA Persian that Iranian officials never mentioned to Richardson the names of the 16, either.\u201d\u00a0 The article goes on to list the Iranians held by the U.S. and explains their convictions, etc.\u00a0 The Supreme Leader is content to let all these people slowly live out their meager existence in prison (although the U.S. prison system is so much better than Evin Prison).\u00a0 See \u201cFuture US-Iran Prisoner Releases Could be Complicated by Who’s Involved, Who Isn’t,\u201d<\/a> Michael Lipin, VOA, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know names, only the claim that 6 have been arrested.\u00a0 \u201cIran holds 6 people over Ukrainian plane crash,\u201d<\/a> AA, June 6, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAfghans denounce Iran police after refugees killed in car blaze,\u201d Al Jazeera, June 6, 2020. \u201cBlack boxes of downed Ukrainian plane of \u2018no help\u2019, Iran claims,\u201d Reuters, June 6, 2020.\u00a0 Were they manipulated?\u00a0 But Iran says it will transfer the boxes of Flight 752 to another country. \u201cIn an unprecedented move, the Iranian Judiciary has … <\/p>\n

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