gatestoneinstitute – Europeans, including British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, delude themselves in believing that by “working with Iran” they could prevent the Islamic Republic from “crossing the red lines.”

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on February 2nd, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners were executed secretly last Wednesday at Rajai Shahr Prison, Karaj city.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man who was sentenced to death for murder charges, was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison last Tuesday.

Radiofarda – Chief of the Iranian judiciary’s Human Rights Council has dismissed the new European trade mechanism as a mere “promissory note” and has said Iran should also delay financial legislation demanded by the West.

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s Expediency Council has said that reviewing an anti-terror financing bill will be delayed since the arbitration body has not scheduled a meeting for Saturday, February 9.

VOA — One member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was killed and five were wounded in an attack on a base in southeastern Iran on Saturday, Iranian media reported, as the country holds official celebrations on the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution.

VOA — Forty years after its revolution, Iran has no fear of a “declining” America, a senior cleric said on Friday at the start of official commemorations of the uprising that made the country a permanent enemy of the United States.

VOA – A former Iranian deputy environment chief is criticizing the global environmental community’s lack of public advocacy on behalf of eight jailed Iranian conservationists whose trial began in Tehran this week.

VOA — His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever changed the nation.