Radiofarda – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said five of the 12 border guards kidnapped last month by a separatist group on the border with Pakistan had been freed, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Thursday.
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Iran’s VP confirms organized crime funds enter banking system
Al-Arabia – The Iranian Vice President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi confirmed that funds collected from “organized crime” are integrated into the Iranian banking system, as there “is no data about the source and destination of laundered money in the country.”
Read More »Iran’s ‘cyber attacks’ against US can cause damage, experts warn
Al-Arabia – As the United States completes its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, security analysts warn of more frequent and dangerous cyber attacks from Iran.
Read More »Women Political Prisoner Atena Daemi Summoned To Prosecutor’s Office
Iran-HRM – Atena Daemi held at the women’s ward of Evin Prison was verbally notified on November 13, 2018, by the prison authorities that she had been summoned to the Branch 5 of Evin Prosecutor’s Office on November 14, 2018.
Read More »Iran Accuses 5 Activists Held in Labor Protest of Security Offenses
VOA – Five Iranian activists detained in southern Iran for participating in a two-week-long labor protest have been put under investigation for alleged national security offenses.
Read More »Iran: Mounting Crackdown on Teachers, Labor Activists
HRW – Iranian authorities have increased targeting of teachers and labor activists in recent weeks for organizing and conducting peaceful protests, Human Rights Watch said today.
Read More »Conditional release of Iranian Human Rights Lawyer After 8 Years in Prison
Iran Human Right (IHR) – Prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was released earlier today after spending 8 years in prison.
Read More »Iran Executions: Three Men Hanged in Public- IHR Warns About a New Wave of Execution in the Coming Weeks
Iran Human Rights – Three prisoners were hanged in public at Iranian city of Shiraz this morning. Several children were observed among the crowd watching the executions.
Read More »Second Peaceful Teachers’ Strike in Iran Met With Arrests, Summons and Threats
CHRI – Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers’ rights strikes by arresting and summoning alleged participants in several cities across the nation.
Read More »Iranian pension funds on brink absent major reforms
Al-Monitor – Successive Iranian administrations have in past decades, to various degrees, shown a tendency toward populist policies. This has often meant losing sight of underlying issues that are only addressed after transforming into fully fledged crises. The state of pension funds in Iran, which is becoming increasingly dire, is a prime example of the latter.
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