Al-Monitor – Twitter suspended Friday an account believed to belong to the office of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The social media giant has taken action against some Iran-related accounts since permanently suspending Donald Trump from Twitter earlier this month when Trump was still president. The account, which had the handle @khamenei_site, tweeted a threat against Trump. The tweet was entitled …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCRIF condemned the Iran’s decision to execute Sunni clerics Amanollah Baluchi and Hafez Abdolrahim Koohi. USCIRF Commissioner @g_manchin: "We are appalled by Iran's decision to execute Sunni clerics Amanollah Baluchi and Hafez Abdolrahim Koohi. #Iran must cease its brutal persecution of religious minorities." https://t.co/cBqNkZ2PXu— USCIRF (@USCIRF) January 21, 2021

Iranwire – A cleric has accused President Hassan Rouhani of being addicted to opium on state-run television. Speaking on Zavieh [“Angle”], a program broadcast by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Institute of Islamic Culture and Thought representative Ahmad Jahanbezorgi said: ”An official who is smoking opium at home will not go anywhere and his ministers will not be able to contact …

Iranwire – IranWire has seen a copy of an intelligence report received by Iraqi officials on Wednesday which warned ISIS could carry out bomb attacks in the country on Friday, January 22. The report is thought to have been issued by the Falcons Intelligence Cell, a 5,000-strong government counter-terrorism unit comprising intelligence officers, law enforcement and other operatives conducting covert …

Iranwire – A new finding by a delegation of Afghanistan’s parliament shows that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been providing support, both with funds and by supplying weapons, to 22 “dangerous” groups in the country’s Herat province. The delegation, led by Abdol Sattar Hosseini and accompanied by Habiba al-Rahman Pedram, Hamidollah Hanif, and Karamoddin Rezazadeh, traveled to Herat on …

Iran-HRM – Another 11 months of imprisonment has been handed down for political prisoner Saeed Sangar who has already finished serving his 20-year sentence. After various stages of fabricating a new case against political prisoner Saeed Sangar, another 11 months of imprisonment was handed down to him on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. He has already served over 20 years in …

HRW – In light of thestatement by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 8, 2021, that the Islamic Republic will not import any COVID-19 vaccines made in the United States or the United Kingdom, we the undersigned organizations call upon the Supreme Leader to rescind this order and allow Iranians to purchase any safe and effective vaccines as soon …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Zahedan Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed at Zahedan Central Prison yesterday, January 20. The identity of the prisoner who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) on murder charges has been established as Hafez Abdolsattar, son of Abdolghani. An informed source …

(Reuters) – The United States seeks to lengthen and strengthen the nuclear constraints on Iran through diplomacy and the issue will be part of President Joe Biden’s early talks with foreign counterparts and allies, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. Biden has said that if Tehran resumed strict compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement – under which Iran restrained …

Shabtabnews – In an open letter IOPHR asks Javaid Rehman – the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran to closely examine ” the growing process of execution of Sunni citizens by the extremist Shiite government of Iran,” and “submit the above cases in the human rights file of the Iranian government. …