Al-Arabia – Senior leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are likely to split up and leave the country secretly, according to American expert Michael Pregent, a senior fellow in Hudson Institute.
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White House, Kremlin Advisers To Discuss Arms Control, Iran’s Role In Syria: Report
Radiofarda – U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton will discuss arms control treaties and Iran’s role in Syria in talks with his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva next week, Reuters is reporting.
Read More »Dervish Family Members Receive Heavy Punishment
Iran-HRM – Kasra, Puriya and Amir Nouri, arrested along with their mother, Shokoufeh Yadollahi during the February Sufi protests in Tehran, have been sentenced to 12, two and six years behind bars, respectively.
Read More »Iran Sentences 12 Member Of Church To Prison For Practicing Christianity
Iran-HRM – Iran The Revolutionary Court of Bushehr has sentenced a Christian couple and 10 other Iranian Christians to one year in prison each for ‘Propagating against the state in favor of Christianity.’ The group of Christian converts was arrested on April 7, 2015.
Read More »Iran Arrests 40 Young Partygoers For Drinking, Dancing
Iran-HRM – Officials in Iran have arrested 40 young men and women at a private party in in Birjand, capital of the southern Khorassan Province in eastern Iran, according to the city’s Deputy Prosecutor.
Read More »New US Iran Policy Chief Lays Out Agenda
VOA – The Trump administration’s new special representative for Iran says his team will focus most of its work on changing Tehran’s behavior on issues of nuclear weapons, terrorism and detention of Americans.
Read More »Azerbaijani Turkish Activists Arrested After Ceremony in Mount Sabalan
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Security forces in Meshginshahr (northwestern Iran) reportedly arrested several Azerbaijani Turkish minority activists on Friday, August 10th after attacking their camp in Mount Sabalan.
Read More »Security Forces Arrest Citizen in Ahvaz
Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) – Majed Savari, a citizen from the city of Ahvaz (southwestern Iran), was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces early morning on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. According to an informed source, Mr Savari was transferred to an undisclosed location.
Read More »Judicial Official Refuses to Lift Iran’s Ban on Twitter Despite Growing Use by State Officials
CHRI – After several state officials called on President Hassan Rouhani to make Twitter accessible in Iran, a hardline judicial official has said doing so would be a “crime.”
Read More »19 University Students in Iran Issued Long Prison Sentences as One More is Tried in Tehran
CHRI – At least 17 students from universities in Tehran and two others from Tabriz have been issued harsh prison sentences ranging from one to 12 years in preliminary rulings by the Revolutionary Court system for attending protests earlier this year.
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