Al-Arabia – Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began state-wide strike against the executions of Kurdish activists and the bombing of opposition parties in neighboring states.

CHRI – The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ailing political prisoner to go on furlough (temporary leave) so she can visit her ailing father and receive medical treatment. 

RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order aimed at punishing foreigners who interfere in U.S. elections.

RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has described accusations by the United States that Tehran’s allies were responsible for recent attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Iraq as “astonishing, provocative, and irresponsible,” Iranian media report.

Radiofarda – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Iran’s “war with America” would entail “problems” and “casualties” for the people. Nevertheless, he warned public speakers and the media against disillusioning the people by spreading pessimism.

Radiofarda – Turkey has stepped up arms supplies to Syrian rebels to help them stave off an expected offensive by the Syrian army and its Russian and Iran-backed allies in the northwest near the Turkish frontier, rebel sources told Reuters.

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a vice president, chief of staff, and senior aide under former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison after being convicted on charges including threatening national security, Iranian media report.

Radiofarda – The head of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, has warned Iranian media not to cover sex tourism unless they want to face prosecution.

Radiofarda – Israeli security company CheckPoint says it has evidence proving state actors in Iran are using smartphone malware to monitor individuals they consider national security threats.

‍Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, Iranian journalist who has been jailed in Iran for four years, sent a message, expressing condolences to the grieving parents of three executed Kurdish political prisoners, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zaniar and and Loghman Moradi, who were executed on September 8, 2018.