HRANA News Agency – The head of Rajai Shahr prison has allowed criminal prisoners to “loot” the personal properties of executed Sunni prisoners. In response to several survivals’ protests, the prison officials said “These are the remnants of those executed as ‘war booty’ and we are free to decide about them.” However, according to the law, the belongings of the …

PayvandNews – Iran’s weightlifter Sohrab Moradi has lifted a total of 403 kilograms at the 94-kilogram category of Rio 2016 Olympics Games, and won the second gold medal for the Iranian squad at the world’s biggest sporting event on August 14, 2016. Iran’s weightlifter Sohrab Moradi On Friday, Iran won its first gold in the games as weightlifter Kianoush Rostami …

RFL/RE – An activist says she will continue to bring a banner calling for gender equality in Iran to Olympic events despite being asked to abandon the sign. Iranian-born Darya Safai was questioned by security officials when she came to an Iranian men’s volleyball match at a Rio de Janeiro arena on August 13 with a sign that read “Let …

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aawsat- Iran’s Attorney-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri recently exposed details on a judiciary investigation featuring 1,600 top Iranian officials suspected of involvement in rampant corruption scandal. For his part, Iranian Presidential Chief of Staff Mohammad Nahavandian rejected all criticism directed at Rouhani’s administration against the soundness of the landed ‘landmark’ nuclear deal. “The nuclear deal, all the way from the negotiations …

TIME – A series of fires and explosions in recent weeks has killed one and caused major damage After weeks of speculation on the cause of an unprecedented string of fires and explosions in major Iranian oil and gas facilities, Iran’s Supreme National Cyberspace Council has said that it is looking into cyber-attacks as a possible cause. “Special teams will …

Telegraph.co.uk – Almost 40 years ago I was taken hostage with 51 of my colleagues in Iran and held for 444 days in captivity. Today, international captives are being held again, including the British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. She was captured in April when she was visiting family with her two-year old daughter. Information about her condition is scarce. We know …

Iranhumanrights.org – Recording of Ayatollah Montazeri’s Plea to Stop the Executions is Taken Off Website An audio file of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri—the once successor to Iran’s first supreme leader—bitterly criticizing the Islamic Republic’s mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 and arguing for an end to the killings, has been removed from his official website upon “request” from Iran’s …

Iranhumanrights.org – Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was struck down by Iran’s Supreme Court in 2015 but remains imprisoned for posting comments critical of the Islamic Republic on social media, is seeking a reduced prison term. A source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that although the death sentence against Soheil Arabi was …

Al-monitor – Sept. 24, 2015, was a tragic day. More than 700 people were killed in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The disaster occurred on the first day of Eid al-Adha, when pilgrims perform the ritual known as “stoning the devil” in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca. In Iran, the event is remembered …