Iran-HRM – Another child committed suicide in Iran, due to poverty and not having a smartphone to participate in online classes. The news of a young girl committing suicide for not having a smartphone circulated in the social media on October 20, 2020. Parastoo Jalili Azar, 13, lived in Talatappeh village near Urmia, capital of the W. Azerbaijan Province, northwestern …

gatestoneinstitute.org -Iranian terrorist “sleeper cells” are reportedly continuing to operate in the US, according to intelligence officials and security experts. The Iranian regime is also continuing to target Latin American countries, where it dispatches its agents (specifically from Hezbollah), creates terror cells, and trains militias. By turning a blind eye to the Iranian regime’s terror activities in foreign countries and …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi has been transferred to solitary confinement in the Revolutionary Guards’ Ward 2-A at Evin Prison. Ward 2-A of Evin Prison which has been recognized as one of the most infamous centers of repression among political activists, is under the control of the notorious IRGC intelligence division. Officials of the Prisons Organization have no access …

With the reimposition of the harsh sanctions against Iranian oil exports in 2018 by the Trump administration, officials in Iran have focused on non-oil exports as the only viable way to meet the country’s foreign exchange needs. But the country’s trade policies have failed to resolve the bottleneck created in the absence of petrodollars. In terms of commodity diversity, most of the …

Radiofarda – Mariam Claren, the daughter of Iranian-German dual citizen Nahid Taghavi, is speaking out after her mother was detained by Iranian security forces at her home in Tehran on October 16, claiming she has no information on Taghavi’s fate. “No sign of life from my mother for 7 days! I demand clarification, I demand intervention, I demand her release! …

Radiofarda – York Regional Police identified Mohammad Mehdi Amin Sadeghieh as the victim of a suspected homicide. The 58-year-old, who went by Mehdi Amin, was found dead in his townhouse last Wednesday afternoon, a police spokesman said. Police have not identified a suspected motive in Amin’s killing, and a spokesman would only say on Friday that investigators will look at …

Al-Arabia – Thousands of Iraqis headed Sunday to Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square and its high-security Green Zone to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement against the country’s stagnant political class. “This is an important day, we are here to keep the movement going,” student Mohamed Ali said in the square, epicenter of the revolt. The renewed mobilization has …

RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged the authorities to prioritize public health above any economic or security concerns as the Middle East’s hardest-hit country battles a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak. Iran’s death toll from COVID-19 topped 32,000 this week. “We must do everything” to reduce the number of deaths, Khamenei said, adding that health …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The American two-party system resembles cartel arrangements in business: it restricts access to power to two gigantic machines that, like big business driving out little business, prevent diversity and competition on a large scale. As a result, small radial groups are forced to infiltrate the two parties and push them in directions not necessarily wanted by the mass …

VOA – The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized Iran’s government for refusing to grant her husband a single day of sick leave in his 14 months of detention despite his multiple ailments and risk of coronavirus exposure in prison. In an interview with VOA Persian from her home in Mashhad this week, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said her husband, …