Radiofarda – Chilean law enforcement officials are investigating the delivery of Iranian crude oil to state energy company ENAP as a possible source of the noxious fumes that caused hundreds of people to seek hospital treatment in August, a prosecutors’ office told Reuters.

Radiofarda – The secretary of a powerful watchdog body in Iran has said that financial transparency bills proposed by President Hassan Rouhani’s administration are somewhat against the Islamic Republic’s constitution and long-term general policies.

Radiofarda – A former Iranian nuclear official and a confidant of Iran’s Supreme Leader has attacked the policy of relying on Europe to help Iran in trade, essentially circumventing U.S. sanctions.

Al-Arabia – Israel’s Operation Northern Shield, which recently exposed Hezbollah’s cross-border attack tunnels, has prompted the perennial question: Are Israel and Hezbollah about to go to war in Lebanon?

Al-Arabia – Russia, Iran and Turkey are close to agreement on composition of a Syrian constitutional committee, diplomats said on Monday.

Iran-HRM – Mostafa Daneshjoo, a lawyer from Iran’s persecuted Gonabadi Dervish religious minority has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Iran-HRM – UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution, by a recorded vote of 84 in favour to 30 against, with 67 abstentions, condemning Iran’s human rights violations expressing grave concern over the high number of executions, especially juveniles, arbitrary and systematic arrests, and atrocious prison conditions.

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on December 17th, 2018 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency(HRANA).

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iranian lawyer Mohammad Najafi has been sentenced to another 13 years imprisonment solely because of doing his job to defend his clients’ rights. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment a few weeks ago.

CHRI – Iranian Client Apps Are Violating Telegram’s Terms of Service by Failing to Protect User Data