Radiofarda – A prominent Iranian rights activist and political prisoner has started a hunger strike to support another prisoner of conscience whose health is deteriorating in prison.

Radiofarda – Tehran has no benefit from the nuclear deal anymore since Washington reimposed sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs, warned on Monday, November 26.

Radiofarda – A labor strike at the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane Mill in southeastern Iran is entering its fourth consecutive week, with workers demanding overdue wages and a return of the mill to public ownership.

Radiofarda – Tehran’s stock exchange plunged on November 25 and 26 trading sessions in what could be the indirect result of U.S. sanctions, particularly on the country’s oil exports. It slightly recovered on Tuesday, but the outlook remains uncertain.

Al-Arabia – The US Department of Sate released a press statement by Secretary Mike Pompeo on Monday stating that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has “once again called for the destruction of Israel”, which comes across as “seemingly calling for war.”

Al-Arabia – Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency says a Sunni cleric who had worked to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites, members of the two biggest sects in Islam, was shot and killed.

Iran-HRM – The head of the Judicial and Legal Commission of the regime’s parliament on Monday opposed to the adoption of the law on the increase of the legal age of marriage and said “increasing the legal age of marriage is contrary to the general policies of the system,” according to the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated with Iran’s elite …

Iran-HRM – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli-Larijani on Monday warned workers protesting over unpaid wages against creating “sedition” and threatened them with persecution.

VOA – A group of Iranian doctors has staged a protest outside Iran’s parliament to demand hospital treatment for a detained human rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for months.

VOA – FIFA-appointed human rights experts want the soccer body to set Iran a deadline for ending a ban on women attending games.