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Monthly Archives: January 2021

Cuban Researchers To Test COVID-19 Vaccine In Iran

RFL/RE – A Cuban state-run research institute says it has signed a deal with Iran’s Pasteur Institute to test the Caribbean state’s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Iran. The Finlay Vaccine Institute’s (IFV) January 9 announcement came one day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned any import of U.S.- or U.K.-produced vaccines, which he called “untrustworthy,” to …

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Iranian Doctors Urge the Government to Stop Politicizing the Vaccine

Iranwire – Two days after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned the purchase of American and British vaccines, the heads of the three branches of the Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with the chairman of the Assembly of Scientific Associations, appealed to President Hassan Rouhani to ensure the vaccines are procured immediately. They urged him not to …

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The Long-Term Consequences of Khamenei’s Vaccine Ban

Iranwire – On January 8, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned the import of United States and United Kingdom Covid-19 vaccines, making the announcement during a live, televised speech. The reason for the ban, he said, was that the two countries were not “trustworthy”. This decree means that vaccines that could save Iranians from infection and death are now forbidden from being …

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Fact Check: Are Vaccines Part of America and Britain’s Devious Plans?

Iranwire – In a televised speech on Friday, January 8, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned American and British coronavirus vaccines from Iran and claimed:“They wish to test a vaccine on other nations to see if it works or not.” “I have said this to the officials, and I am now announcing this publicly,” he said. “If the Americans had been …

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Iran Human Rights Monitor Annual Report 2020 – Condition of Prisoners

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime breached its obligations based on international covenants on the right to life and on the health of prisoners. It brought tremendous pressure on prisoners. Prisoners of conscience and political prisoners underwent increasing pressure last year and were harassed, mistreated and tortured in prisons. Breach of the Principle of the Separation of Categories of Crimes To …

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Iran sentences three protesters to 40 years in prison

Iran-HRM – The Revolutionary Court of Dezful has sentenced three young men to a total of 40 years in prison for participating in protests over a rise in gasoline prices in November 2019. The three protesters Ra’d Hamdani, 23, Ghasi Khasraji, 19, and Sajjad Dabat, 20, were arrested in the November 2019 nationwide protests by intelligence agents in Shush county, …

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Iran, China, Promise to be the Biggest Tests of Biden’s Presidency in 2021

gatestoneinstitute.org – There is eager anticipation among many of Washington’s foes that Mr Biden’s inauguration will result in the new president adopting a less confrontational tone with the outside world than his predecessor. China’s communist rulers, for example, are hopeful that Mr Biden will engage in the kind of meaningless trade deals so beloved of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama. …

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Marx, Heidegger and the Crocodile

gatestoneinstitute.org – Because Fardid knew no German, his knowledge of Heidegger was based on scanty reading and misreading of French or Persian translations. Fardid’s understanding of Heidegger could be summed up in two erroneous beliefs: society’s need for order and the need for an unimpeachable leader to impose that order. He also claimed a visceral hatred of Marxism in all …

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A Trans Woman’s Memory of Harassment and Humiliation in Iran

Iranwire.com – “I have no roof over my head. I don’t know where I can go. I do not have a place to call home. I have appealed to everybody: the police, the emergency services, and the Welfare Organization. But none of them responded. They said this has nothing to do with them; they do not have a center or …

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Rights Groups Criticize Iran’s Ban On U.S., British COVID Vaccines

RFL/RE – Iran is being criticized by international rights groups for putting politics above its own people after Tehran banned imports of British and U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. The criticism comes after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on January 8 that imports of U.S. and British vaccines into Iran were “forbidden.” U.S. firms Pfizer and Moderna, as well as …

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