Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner on death row for “narcotics” charges has been executed at Zanjan Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, yesterday morning, August 18, a prisoner was executed in Zanjan Central Prison. His identity has been established as Ahmad Mehravar, who had been on death row. An informed source told IHR: “He was arrested in …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – According to a list obtained by IHR, 77 protesters detained during the November 2019 protests are currently detained at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh). Of those, 70 have been sentenced to between 1-9 years in prison, three have been sentenced to death and one is awaiting a conviction of moharebeh (waging war against God) which …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two months after the arrest of Sharmin Meymandinejad, the founder of the Imam Ali Popular-Student Relief Society (Imam Ali Society), the Ministry of Interior has set a 20-day deadline for the NGO to change its structure. A hundred civil society activists recently issued a statement protesting the “deterrent and narrow-minded treatment of NGOs” and called …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The globe’s most influential Muslim international forum, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a resolution drafted in March last year, in fact commended China’s efforts in its care of the country’s Muslims. The silence of the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia is, in part, explained by the at least $75 billion of investment deals reached in …

Al-Monitor – A group of hard-line lawmakers in Iran’s parliament have drafted legislation that would oblige the government of President Hassan Rouhani to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The “double-urgency” draft legislation has already been signed by 49 lawmakers. The departure, based on the text of the proposal, would take place …

PayvandNews – The coastal village of Darak in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan has recently been inscribed on the National Heritage list, CHTN reported. Located between the two important port cities of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas, Darak is one of the few places in the world where the sea and the desert meet. Darak or Darag in the local language means settling …

armradio.com – Iranian Armenian composer Loris Tjeknavorian, 82, has been selected as the winner of the Books for Peace Awards 2020, Tehran Times reports. He had first received the nomination in May from Iran’s Art for Peace Festival, which had nominated him for the 2019 edition of the awards. The winners will be honored during a special ceremony on September 12 in …

Radiofarda – The daughter of a prominent imprisoned human rights advocate and internationally renowned lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was arrested on Monday and taken for interrogation was released the same day, her father said. An “Islamic Revolutionary Court” based at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, had summoned the twenty-year-old Mehraveh Khandan in what was a possible pressure tactic against her mother. …

Radiofarda – Over the last week, the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) index fell 13 percent after breaking record after record despite the dire situation the Iranian economy has been facing since 2018. In New York, London, Frankfurt, and Tokyo, the coronavirus pandemic and associated turbulence pushed major stock indices off their peaks. Yet the TSE index has continued to surge, even though …

Radiofarda – In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said he does not play the role of postman between the two diametrically opposed countries with close ties to Iraq. Al-Kadhimi who will be visiting the United States on August 20 to meet with President Donald Trump made the remark in response to …