iranhr.net – A death-row prisoner was hanged at the Iranian city of Zanjan on Sunday, January 26. According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Sobhan Karimi was hanged on January 26, 2020, at Zanjan Central Prison. Zanjan is a city and the capital of Zanjan Province which lies 300 km north-west of Tehran.  “Sobhan Karimi was sentenced to death around four …

voanews – KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – There has been an increase in Iranian activity in Afghanistan that poses a risk to American and coalition troops there, a senior U..S. commander said, as the threat from Tehran continues to churn across the Middle East.      Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East made an unannounced visit …

radiofarda – Speaking at a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on January 29, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said his country will not change its position on hosting the members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). In his speech Rama stressed that Albania’s decision to host MKO, an Iranian opposition group, was not an act against …

radiofarda – An Appeals Court In Iran has upheld the prison sentences of seven teachers for participating in nationwide tachers’ protests and strikes in October and November 2018 in North Khorasan Province. According to a report distributed on social media by Council Of Teachers’ syndicates, a Revolutionary Court had sentenced the seven teachers from North Khorasan Province to a total …

radiofarda – Iran’s Health Minister on Friday said Iran is imposing a ban on all arrivals from China. Authorities say the six people suspected of coronavirus infection have all been cleared. In a tweet on Friday Dr. Saeed Namaki said he has asked First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri to officially communicate a ban on all air, land and sea arrivals from …

rferl.org – The U.S. military has once again raised the number of U.S. service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran’s missile strike on an Iraqi base earlier this month. Pentagon spokesman Thomas Campbell said that as of January 30, “a total of 64 U.S. service members have been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, or TBI.” In remarks …

rferl.org – The U.S. government announced on January 30 that it had successfully completed transactions for the benefit of Iranian medical patients using a payment mechanism through Switzerland that bypasses the Iranian government. Designed to get humanitarian exports to the Iranian people, the system ensures no revenue or payment is transferred to Iran, whom Washington accuses of misusing such channels …

rferl.org – Iran’s hard-line establishment is trying to ensure through a state propaganda campaign that the foreign operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its assassinated commander are not forgotten. Major General Qasem Soleimani — the late commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force — was targeted and killed by a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on January …

AP —A vessel in the Persian Gulf caught fire Wednesday night, prompting a warning from British naval officials to “exercise extreme caution.” The United Kingdom’s Maritime Trade Operations said the fire struck a vessel northwest of Sharjah, an Emirati sheikhdom. It offered no other information about the vessel. Emirati officials said they were working to put out the blaze on …

Radiofarda – Iranian officials at Tehran international airport have harassed the relatives of the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane crash that killed all 176 onboard, a Canadian-based dentist and writer, Hamed Esmaeilion, has revealed. Hamed Esmaeilion, who has lost his wife and daughter disclosed on his Facebook page January 27, that Tehran International Imam Khomeini airport’s officials …