Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Mehdi Ali Hosseini, a wrestler sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “pre-meditated murder,” has been executed in Dezful Prison. According to state-run ISNA who quoted the judiciary’s public relations of Khuzestan Province, a prisoner was executed in Dezful Prison this morning. The Asr Jonoub Telegram channel has identified the executed prisoner as 30-year-old Mehdi Ali Hosseini. Mehdi Ali …

Al-Monitor – Part of a famed arch that was part of an ancient Persian palace in Iraq collapsed around the beginning of the year, and Iran has expressed its readiness to help rebuild it. Iran’s minister of cultural heritage, Ali Asghar Mounesan, said Iranian archaeologists are ready to help rebuild the ancient Taq Kasra arch following the collapse of a section of it. He said, “The problems Iraq has been going through are …

spiegel.de – More than a hundred experts are demanding an end to the EU-China investment agreement, DER SPIEGEL has learned. They name serious human rights violations and the suppression of democracy movements in China as the reasons. A broad front in opposition to the deal has developed over the last several days. More than 100 renowned China experts, researchers and …

Radiofarda – Indonesia says it has seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian vessel suspected of illegally transferring oil in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters. Iran had previously been accused of trying to conceal its oil sales by disabling tracking systems on its tankers as it seeks to counter crippling U.S. sanctions. The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency said on January 25 …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Reza Qoli Shir Mohammadi remains in detention despite suffering from liver cancer. Mr. Shir Mohammadi, 65, is presently detained in the Prison of Tabriz. He is in dire health and his conditions have deteriorated this week. Informed sources say Mr. Shir Mohammadi contracted cancer in March 2020 and started his chemotherapy. But in December 2020, he …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Loghman Hakimpour was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is presently detained in Evin Prison in Tehran. Political prisoner Loghman Hakimpour has been detained for seven months. He was summoned to court and tried on January 12, 2021. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national …

Iran-HRM – The Annual Report of Iran Human Rights Monitor examines key human rights themes in Iran during 2020. In the past year Iranian people were deprived of their most basic rights due to the horrendous violations of human rights committed by the clerical regime ruling the country. This oppression culminates in horrific scenes of public hangings, floggings, and even …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – According to newly received information, a Baluch and an Afghani prisoner were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on January 20. With the previously documented executions of Hafez Abdolsattar and Abdolraouf Kobdani, four prisoners were executed at the prison on that day. According to Iran Human Rights, on the morning of January 20, the death sentences …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The aim, here, is exclusion rather than qualifications. One fake university with an address in the island of Saba, in the Caribbean, has sold over 500 doctorates to Iranian officials for $25,000 apiece. To complicate matters further, the conditions demand other qualifications that are hard if not impossible to measure…. For example, how do you prove “heartfelt belief …

iranwire – Vaccinations in Iran will start in February with imported vaccines, President Hassan Rouhani announced at the weekly meeting of the National Coronavirus Taskforce. “Foreign vaccines are a necessity until local vaccines are available,” he said in televised remarks, without giving details. Earlier this month Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned the government from importing vaccines from the United States …