CHRI – UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran break its 13-year ban on UN human rights experts visiting the country and allow him entry.

CHRI – Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan

CHRI – Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran . Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash Sadeghi so he can receive medical care for serious health issues that require urgent and sustained care, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today.

Al-Monitor – Inflation is quickly rising in Iran on the back of a continuous and uncontrollable growth of liquidity. Two basic factors explain the ongoing slump in the economy. One is the ineffectiveness of the government’s fiscal policies. The other is the monetary objectives of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI); these are frequently dictated by governments, including that of President Hassan Rouhani. As a …

Al-Monitor – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has responded to the Sept. 22 terrorist attack in the southwestern city of Ahvaz — which both the Islamic State (IS) and Arab separatists claimed — by using missiles and, for the first time outside of its borders, armed drones against targets in Syria.

PayvandNews – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says seven European central banks have agreed to create a special payment system between EU and his country to guarantee business and trade between the two sides sides in the face of U.S. sanctions.

Radiofarda – Iran’s striking truck drivers have been threatened with execution by some of the country’s top prosecutors.

Radiofarda – More than 2,200 physicians and civil rights activists have sent a letter to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the chairmen of Iran’s Parliament Health and Cultural Commissions, raising alarm over the deteriorating health condition of a prominent publisher, physician and cultural activist, Farhad Maysami, held behind bars.

Radiofarda – The International Court of Justice will hand down an eagerly awaited decision this week on Iran’s demand for the suspension of debilitating nuclear-related sanctions imposed by the United States.

Al-Arabia – The family of a prominent late Shiite cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were behind explosives found in the bags of Iranian Hajj pilgrims in 1986.