Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed at Rasht Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison (Lakan) on the morning of Sunday, 1 November 2020. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Jafar Hassani, from Fuman, North Iran.   Informed sources familiar with …

Al-Monitor – Facebook removed several accounts purportedly from Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood for coordinated activity they each conducted in October. The social media giant released its October 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report on Thursday. Facebook defines such behavior as “coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation.” To this …

Al-Arabia – Jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been granted temporary release, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online news website reported on Saturday. “Sotoudeh… has been released temporarily with the consent of the prosecutor in charge of women’s prisons,” the website said. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The UN had …

RFL/RE – A UN agency has called on Iran to speed up its investigation into a Kyiv-bound passenger plane mistakenly shot down in January, killing 176 people. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council on November 6 urged Iran to “expedite the accident investigation” into the deadly crash of the Ukrainian jet. “We have had several exchanges with the Iranian …

iranwire.com – In Iran, many women have successful careers but end up agreeing to be housewives at the request of their husbands, or even being forced by the courts. The laws of the Islamic Republic, in particular Article 1117 of the Civil Code, grant husbands with the means to control their wives’ employment, and gives them access to the courts if required. …

iranwire.com – We are halfway through the ninth month after the coronavirus outbreak in Iran and, according to official figures, over 37,000 Iranians have lost their lives to this virus. But, according to a number of health officials, we must at least double the health ministry’s figures to arrive at a more realistic number. In other words, the true death …

Radiofarda – Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, announced a new “headquarters” on Wednesday to combat soaring prices in Iran. In a speech a day earlier, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had raised concern over the skyrocketing cost of essential commodities and called on the IRGC’s Basij Force to step in and rein unaffordable prices …

Iran-HRM – Once again, a woman hired and provoked by the head of Qarchak Prison in Varamin, assailed female political prisoners, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Zahra Safaei. The woman is an ordinary inmate hired by Mehdi Mohammadi, the head of Qarchak Prison, to attack and kill resistant political prisoners. She attacked Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Zahra Safaei on Monday night, …

RFL/RE – Iranians have been watching the U.S. presidential race carefully due to the possible impact the results could have on their lives, particularly the economy being crushed by U.S. sanctions. “We’re all becoming experts of America’s electoral system and Michigan and Wisconsin,” a Tehran-based journalist told RFE/RL to highlight the great interest in the U.S. vote in the Islamic …

iranwire.com – Over the last four decades, the Tehran Stock Exchange has experienced many ups and downs, from semi-closure in the first years after the revolution to a stronger period beginning in 1989 coinciding with the country’s first five-year development plan. Over the last two or three years, the situation has been different, and the market’s fluctuations have been shaped by …