Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Iranian media have reported execution of a prisoner in the northeastern city of Gonbad Kavus without mentioning his name. According to Iranian semi-official Fars News Agency, a man was hanged at a prison in Gonbad Kavus city, Golestan province, on May 5, 2020. He was sentenced to death for “rape and murder of a four-year-old child” five …

gatestoneinstitute.org – At the same time that the airline [Iran’s Mahan Air] was flying to China, it also continued operations to other countries in the Middle East, with the result that it has now been accused of spreading the virus to a number of countries including Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Lebanon. Mahan Air has so far declined …

Al-Monitor – A new Iraqi government has been finally formed after months of deadlock and a political crisis that hit the country’s stability and economy. The majority of ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi were approved by parliament, thus allowing the formation of a new government only days before his 30-day deadline to form a government. Out of a …

Radiofarda – The Spokesman of Iran’s Judiciary on Tuesday accused two recently detained university students of being affiliated with the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) which is designated as a terrorist organization by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Gholam-Hossein Esmaili who was speaking to reporters said these students — who were not named — had established contact with the MEK and …

Radiofarda – Official data published by Turkey and Iran’s other Asian economic partners indicate that trade between Iran and these countries dropped significantly in the first quarter of 2020 with the balance going into negative for Iran for the first time in recent history. The international Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Iran’s total oil, non-oil and service exports in 2020 …

Radiofarda – A large majority of U.S. legislators on both sides of the aisle called on President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, May 4, to push for an extension of a United Nations arms embargo on Iran. In a new letter to the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, 387 bipartisan members of the House of Representatives urged the State …

Radiofarda – An Iranian lawmaker has quoted a deputy defense minister as saying that more than 30 Iranians “active in military affairs” have been in jail outside Iran, but currently there are five individuals in prison abroad on charges of “military activity.” Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, who made the …

Radiofarda – While the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has said that nothing will be left of the 2015 nuclear deal if the UN security Council extends the arms embargo against Iran beyond October 2020, President Hassan Rouhani’s Spokesman, Ali Rabiei, says Iran is not planning to withdraw from the nuclear deal. Based on the multilateral accord, also known …

RFL/RE – Israeli missile strikes targeted a research center and military base in the northern province of Aleppo, Syrian state media said on May 4, in the fifth such strike in two weeks on suspected Iranian positions. The Syrian Army said Israel struck a military barracks in Al-Safirah in the eastern Aleppo countryside. Earlier, state media said a research center …

Iran-HRM – At least 50 women infected with the coronavirus in Sepidar Prison in the city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province.The women were quarantined after getting infected with the virus and suffering symptoms such as fever and coughing. Other prisoners also have symptoms similar to the common cold.The prison doctor is also sick and there is no one to treat the …