Al-Arabia – With hours to go before the Iran sanctions deadline painful sanctions on Iran’s oil industry will impose, which the Trump administration says are the toughest penalties ever to be placed on the country.
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Pompeo: US sanctions will target Iran’s regime, not people
Al-Arabia – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that upcoming economic sanctions against Tehran is focused on targeting the Iranian regime, not its people.
Read More »Civil Azerbaijani Activists Tortured By Intelligence Agents In Iran
Iran-HRM – Ministry of Intelligence agents violently attacked two female Azerbaijani Turkic activists in an attempt to extract false confessions, leaving one in the hospital with broken teeth and injured fingers.
Read More »Iran Marks Anniversary Of U.S. Embassy Seizure
RFL/RE – Thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy that led Washington to cut diplomatic ties with Iran.
Read More »Iraq Blasts U.S. For Statements On Iranian-Backed Militias
RFL/RE – The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has issued a rare rebuke of its American ally, asserting that a U.S. Twitter posting concerning neighboring Iran “goes beyond diplomatic norms” and represents an “interference” in Iraq’s internal affairs.
Read More »Netanyahu Hails Trump’s ‘Historic Move’ To Reimpose Iran Sanctions
RFL/RE – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised U.S. President Donald Trump for reimposing sanctions against Iran, calling it an “historic move.”
Read More »Rajai Shahr Prisoner Enters 38th Day of Hunger Strike
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Rajai Shahr Prisoner Hamzeh Darvish, 24, a member of Iran’s Sunni religious minority, has been on hunger strike since September 23rd in protest of the Supreme Court’s denial of his retrial request.
Read More »Open Letter: the Fabricated Case file of Political Prisoner Pirouz Mansouri
Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) – Mohammad Ali (Pirouz) Mansouri, who has been a political prisoner at Rajai Shahr for eleven years, is further from freedom than he thought.
Read More »202 Gonabadi Sufis are given long imprisonment and flogging sentences
Shabtabnews – According to HRANA news agency 202 Gonabadi Sufis are sentenced to jail and flogging.
Read More »Wave Of Arrests In Khuzestan In Wake Of Attack On Parade
Radiofarda – The Iranian authorities have waged a sweeping crackdown against the Ahvazi Arab ethnic minority in recent weeks, arresting hundreds of people in Khuzestan province, Amnesty International (AI) said, on Friday, November 2.
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