Radiofarda – The U.S. Departments of State and Treasury sanctioned a Shanghai-based firm Tuesday, May 19, for allegedly working on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Mahan Air airline. China’s Saint Logistics is accused of providing various services to Mahan Air, including booking freight flights between China and Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the sanction on the Chinese company …

Radiofarda – A U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota has charged Payment24, an Iranian online financial services company, its founder and Chief Executive Officer Seyed Sajjad Shahidian and Chief Operating Officer, Vahid Vali, with violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. Sajjad Shahidian (L) with his partner Vahid Vali. Undated. Shahidian, 33, who was arrested in and extradited from the UK, was …

Radiofarda – An outspoken member of Iran’s parliament, Mahmoud Sadeghi, says a Tehran court of appeals has upheld a decision, sentencing him to 21 months in prison, and a 100 million rial (roughly $2400) fine. “The court had previously set a date for July 18, but it unexpectedly issued its ruling today,” Sadeqi tweeted on Monday, May 18. The lower …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Parliament (Majles) says the existence of several intelligence agencies in Iran has led to corruption and losses in the country’s automobile manufacturing industry. An investigative report read out at the Majles on Monday May 19, added that parts of these factories including Iran Khodro Diesel and SAIPA Diesel have been turned into backyards for “political outcasts” …

Radiofarda – Iranian epidemiologists say the symptoms associated with COVID-19 in Iran have changed from respiratory to gastrointestinal. They also believe the shift to gastrointestinal symptoms which are often accompanied with no fever or only low fever cause a delay in diagnosis and result in the further spread of the virus by those who are infected but have no obvious …

Iran-HRM – A London-based Human Rights Organization says Iranian authorities have pressured the families of those killed in Iran protests in November 2019 to settle for proposals of money and “martyrdom”. Six months after at least 1,500 Iranian protesters and civilians were killed in Iran protests during November 2019, the Iranian regime has not yet initiated any judicial investigations to …

RFL/RE – The U.S. military has warned Iran that armed vessels approaching within 100 meters of U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf region risk being “interpreted as a threat and subject to lawful defensive measures.”The maritime broadcast warning issued on May 19 comes after U.S. President Donald Trump warned last month that the U.S. Navy would “shoot down and …

VOA – Iranian authorities have told a female dissident recently sentenced to more than three years in prison that she will get only two months to recover from a needed back surgery before having to start her jail term.   An Iran-based source familiar with dissident Shahla Jahanbin’s situation told VOA Persian in a Monday interview that Jahanbin went to Tehran’s Evin prison …

Amnesty – Amnesty International has released details of the deaths of 304 men, women and children killed by Iran’s security forces during last November’s ruthless crackdown, six months after the protests.  The organization found that more than 220 of the recorded deaths took place over just two days on 16 and 17 November. New and extensive research has again concluded …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Arsalan Khodkam, a political prisoner at Urmia Central Prison, who his family say has not committed any acts of violence, was sentenced to death under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court. Speaking to Iran Human Rights (IHR), a source close to Arsalan Khodkam said: “Arsalan did not commit …