Thursday , 28 March 2024

Monthly Archives: September 2020

Iran’s history of executing athletes

Al-Arabia – Iran’s execution of Navid Afkari – an athlete – was not the first of its kind. Since its inception in the late 1970s, the Iranian regime has executed numerous athletes for their political beliefs. Iran executed 27-year-old champion wrestler Afkari on Saturday, drawing widespread condemnation, including from the United States and the European Union. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News …

Read More »

Navid Afkari’s Execution Was Hasty, His Lawyer Tells Radio Farda

Radiofarda – Babak Paknia, an attorney involved in Navid Afkari’s legal case, dismissed as “unfounded” the Fars provincial judiciary’s statement on carrying out the death penalty against the young athlete. Following the outcry over the 27-year-old national wrestling champion’s hanging on Saturday in the notorious Adelabad prison in Shiraz, Fars’ judiciary published a statement insisting that it had respected all …

Read More »

Human Rights Organization Releases Audio File of Navid Afkari’s Trial

Radiofarda – The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRO) has released an audio file from a court hearing of Navid Afkari, a decorated Iranian wrestler who was executed in an Iranian prison on Saturday. In the brief audio file, the 27-year old national champion asks the judge to show a film related to his alleged killing of a security guard …

Read More »

Coronavirus Pushes Iran’s Tourism to the Point of No Return

Radiofarda – Ali Asghar Mounesan, Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, says that if coronavirus-related restrictions persist, the country’s tourism industry will be eradicated and all parties involved will be “bankrupt.” Mounesan also announced that he would meet with Iran’s Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, to attempt to lift travel bans within the next week. “To prevent the destruction …

Read More »

CBI Will Heavily Inject Dollars Into Local Market

Radiofarda – With the rial, Iranian’s national currency, recently setting a new low record against the U.S. dollar, the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Abdol-Nasser Hemmati, says that, along with “heavily injecting” foreign currencies into the local forex market (NIMA), the bank has permitted the petrochemical, steel, and mineral conglomerates to sell their forex income from exports …

Read More »

U.S. Places Sanctions On Hacking Group With Alleged Ties To Iranian Intelligence

RFL/RE – The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions against an Iranian hacking group, a front company, and more than 45 individuals accused of carrying out a years-long campaign targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists, and international travel companies on behalf of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The September 17 announcement said that the ministry used the hacking group, Advanced …

Read More »

‘No Regrets’: Ex-Iranian President Ahmadinejad On His Presidency, State Violence, His Tweets — And Trump/Biden

RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, differ on most foreign policy issues, including on how to deal with Iran. But former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad told RFE/RL in an exclusive interview that regardless of which man wins the November 3 presidential election, Washington’s policies are unlikely to change. “It doesn’t matter to me who …

Read More »

Pompeo Expects ‘Every Nation’ to Comply With ‘Snapback’ Sanctions on Iran

Radiozamaneh – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that he expected every nation to comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution regarding a “snapback” of sanctions on Iran. “The United States is intent on enforcing all the U.N. Security Council resolutions, and come Monday, there will be a new series of U.N. Security Council resolutions to be in …

Read More »

34 Political Prisoners Including 10 Iran Protesters on Death Row

Iran-HRM – At least 34 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are currently sentenced to death Iranian prisons, 10 of whom are protesters who took part in nationwide protests in 2017, 2018, and 2019.  Two protesters in Isfahan and Shiraz have already been hanged by the regime. Mostafa Salehi was executed on August 5 for his role in Iran’s December 2017/January 2018 …

Read More »

Khamenei’s Office finds a way to circumvent US sanctions

Radiozamahe – Barkat Pharmaceutical Group wants to look legitimate in order to expand its international business and financial network. But Barkat is owned by Setad, an organization under the direct rule of Iran’s Supreme Leader and sanctioned by the US government. Barkat, therefore, found a way to mask its ownership. In 2019, a secretly quiet company, named Karandish Doran Moaser …

Read More »
0