Iran-HRM – Mother of political prisoner Soheil Arabi issued an urgent call to international human rights organizations seeking help to save her son’s life. Meanwhile, she exposed the Judiciary’s conspiracy against Soheil Arabi.

RFL/RE – Iran has launched major naval exercises in the Persian Gulf just days before the United States is due to start reimposing sanctions on Tehran, according to media reports citing U.S. officials.

VOA – Anti-government protests by Iranians fed up with their nation’s economic woes have spread to 10 major cities, posing the biggest challenge to Iran’s Islamist rulers since January’s nationwide demonstrations.

HRW – Activists Face Prolonged Detention, Threat of Torture

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Caspian Sea regions have always had abundant water resources, but they face a new threat as drought forces residents in the interior of the country to move north.

Al-Monitor – As a third day of protests erupted across major Iranian cities over the country’s worsening economic situation, the clergy in Iran is looking inward. Rather than only pointing the blame at US sanctions, the most senior clerics in Iran — often referred to as “grand ayatollahs” — are demanding that the administration and the judiciary take a harder line fighting …

theglobepost – Despite all the efforts, the exiled Iranian political-militant organization Mojahedin-e Khalqm’s (MEK) remains unpopular among ordinary Iranians, Iranian dissidents, and opposition figures in the United States.

RFL/RE – A glimpse into the conspicuous “luxury” of the wedding of an Iranian ambassador’s son has rekindled public criticism of the high times enjoyed by children of Iran’s elite while many of the country’s 82 million people face acute economic pressure.

Radiofarda – The Iranian government has summoned the Tajik ambassador to Tehran to protest allegations linking Iran to an attack that killed four foreign cyclists in Tajikistan.

Radiofarda – Protests against Iran’s chaotic economic situation gained momentum on August 1 in Shapoor district of Isfahan in central Iran. According to reports on social media, police used tear gas and paintball bullets to disperse the protesters.