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Monthly Archives: July 2020

Iran arrests two Swedish nationals in drug smuggling crackdown

Al-Arabia – Iran has arrested two Swedish nationals following the dismantlement of a drug smuggling gang, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. “An international drug smuggling gang has recently been discovered and dismantled in a complex operation,” Tasnim reported on Wednesday. “A number of …

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Pompeo Calls On UN Security Council To Extend Arms Embargo On Iran

Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the UN Security Council on June 30 to extend an arms embargo on Iran, warning allowing it to expire in October would cause instability in the Middle East. “Don’t just take it from me or the United States, listen to countries in the region, from Israel, the Gulf, countries in the …

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Iran Lawmakers Want To Set Up ‘Garlic And Lentil’ Caucus In Parliament

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s parliament, Majles, says that the Board of Directors of the legislative body has so far received about 100 requests for forming parliamentary factions. Alireza Salimi, who is also a member of the parliament’s presidium, added that while the number of requests is increasing, some lawmakers have even proposed launching a “garlic and lentil” parliamentary …

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Young Lawyer Convicted For Criticizing Iran’s Khamenei

Radiofarda – A lawyer and activist loyal to the Islamic Republic has announced that the Revolutionary Court in the city of Shiraz sentenced him to a two-year suspended sentence for a critical remark about Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Charged with “insulting” the Supreme Leader, the young attorney, Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi has also been condemned to sixty trips to his hometown, …

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It Is Time For All Nations To Support Extension Of Iran Arms Embargo

Radiofarda -In May 2018, when the world learned that Iran had concealed a secret nuclear weapons archive before, during and after negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), supporters of the nuclear deal were quick to excuse Iran’s nuclear prevarication. Two years later, with Iran in full breach of its JCPOA commitments, mounting evidence of undeclared nuclear material …

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Former President’s Daughter Says Iran’s Govt Is ‘Neither Religious Nor Revolutionary’

RFL/RE – Faezeh Hashemi, a former Iranian lawmaker and the daughter of one of the founders of the Islamic Republic says Iran is neither a religious government, nor a revolutionary state. Taking part in a question and answer program moderated by prominent Iranian academic Abbas Milani, the director of Stanford University’s Program in Iranian Studies via video teleconference Hashemi discussed issues relating …

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Saudi Arabia: International community needs ‘firm stance’ on Iran after UN report

Al-Arabia – Saudi Arabia called on the International community to take a “firm stance” against Iran and continue to the UN Security Council arms embargo on Tehran, said the Kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday. “The UNSC’s discussion of the UN report that confirmed Iran’s involvement in the attack on the Kingdom’s oil facilities is a reminder for the international community to …

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Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – June 2020

Iran-HRM – June 2020 saw tighter clampdown on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and mistreatment of human rights advocates. Beset by a whole host of economic, social, and political crises, the Iranian regime has been trying to rein in simmering social discontent by use of brute force. There have been reports on death sentenced issued against young men for …

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Iranian Christian Convert Criticizes Iran’s Banishment as Harassment

VOA – An Iranian Christian convert sent into internal exile by Iran’s government after it jailed him for six years for his peaceful evangelism has criticized his banishment as a form of harassment.   Iranian authorities had ordered 33-year-old Ebrahim Firoozi into exile in the southeastern town of Rask in Sistan and Baluchistan province last November, leaving him about 1,600 kilometers from his …

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19 Killed in Gas Explosion at Clinic in Iranian Capital

VOA- A powerful explosion at a clinic in northern Tehran killed at least 19 people on Tuesday, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported. The blast at Sina At’har health center caused damage to buildings in the vicinity and sent a plume of thick black smoke into the night sky, state television reported. “An explosion was reported at 20:56 (1626 GMT) followed …

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