Radiofarda – IRGC Deputy Commander for Operations Abbas Nilforoushan has warned against any Israeli military operation against Iran, threatening “If Israel makes a strategic mistake, it has to collect bits and pieces of Tel Aviv from the lower depths of the Mediterranean Sea.” He added that world powers are incapable of assessing the consequences of an attack on Iran. In …

AFP -Iran has released a “never before seen” photo of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s website released this “never seen before” photo Sept. 25 showing him with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Undated. The photo published on the supreme leader’s official website shows Nasrallah with Khamenei on …

Radiofarda – A court in Iran has upheld a municipality’s decision to demolish an illegally built luxurious mansion owned by the son-in-law of the secretary of the powerful Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). A luxury building belonging to the son in law of Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Rear …

Radiofarda – Security forces have arrested nine people connected to a whistleblower page on social media platform Telegram, the chief of Police in the province of Kurdistan, western Iran, says. Fifteen natural and ten legal persons have sued the managers of the page, named “A’MAK”, (Persian acronym for “disclosure of the performance of Kurdestan’s managers”), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps …

Radiofarda – In an unprecedented verdict, a judge in Iran has sentenced a female gynecologist to seeing patients and delivering babies for one year, free of charge, for disregarding hijab rules. The judge sentenced the unnamed gynecologist woman for sitting on the top of a police vehicle and taking off her scarf (Islamic hijab).The odd punishment replaces a one-year jail …

Radiofarda – Iran’s all-powerful election watchdog has again warned on Saturday it would step in if candidates for upcoming parliamentary elections use “dirty money”. The eleventh Islamic Parliament elections in Iran will be on February 21, 2020, across the country. After holding different elections in the past four decades, the Guardian Council (GC), spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei admitted that “dirty …

Al-Arabia – Lebanese IT expert Nizar Zakka, who was detained in Iran for around four years and freed in June 2019, said that his release was a “US deal,” denying Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in the process and deeming it a cover for the Iranian regime to “save face.” In a statement to Asharq al-Awsat, the permanent US resident pointed out that …

RFL/RE – Shahnaz Haji Shah was 26 years old in September 1980 when she was killed by an Iraqi mortar in the southwestern Iranian port city of Khoramshahr near the border with Iraq.Days earlier, Iraq had invaded Iran, launching air strikes and a ground invasion.Khoramshahr was under constant shelling for weeks before it was seized by the Iraqi forces. Haji …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged at Isfahan Central Prison for murder charges Thursday. On the morning of Thursday, September 26, a man was hanged at Isfahan Central Prison for murder charges, Islamic Republic News Agency reported. According to the Head of Isfahan’s Judiciary, Mohammadreza Habibi, the prisoner was sentenced to death for murdering a truck driver …

gatestoneinstitute.org – For four decades, the mullahs have successfully practiced their “do-and-deny” tactic thanks to the indulgence, not to say cowardice, of Western leaders and the pathetic anti-Americanism of some Western pseudo-intellectuals. Western anti-American intellectuals who become apologists for the mullahs are victims of their inability to conceive of a situation in which, while America may be bad, its adversary …