Al-Arabia – New charges of “propaganda against the system” made by Iran against British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a week after she finished serving a five-year sentence, are “unacceptable,” Britain said Sunday. “It is unacceptable that Iran has chosen to continue a second wholly arbitrary case against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote on Twitter. “She must be allowed to return …

gatestoneinstitute.org – This is why many, even among the critics of the regime, insist that showing any interest in this year’s presidential election, slated for June, is not only a waste of time but active participation in a massive political deception. Today the pro-US faction, also backed by Britain, still hopes to revive the scenario by fielding a candidate in …

VOA – British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared before Iran’s Revolutionary Court Sunday, facing charges of “propaganda against the system.”  “Legally, the court should announce the verdict in a week, but it is up to the judge. I am very hopeful that she will be acquitted,” said her lawyer Hojjat Kermani.  Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 on charges that she was plotting to overthrow Iran’s government, a …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime’s maritime forces opened fire on a group of fule traders, killing a young man in a southern Iranian port on March 12 and pursued other boats that fled the area. Folowing the fatal shooting of Baluch fuel traders, angry locals staged a protest gathering near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on Friday. The protesters burned …

Iran-HRM – A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced four followers of the Baha’i faith to a total of 12 years in prison. The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mona Mehrabi, Elham Kerempisheh, Afsaneh Yadegar Ardestani and Ehsanollah Yadegar Ardestani to a total of 12 years of prison. The four men and women were tried in …

euobserver.com – China, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Russia, and South Sudan are to be stigmatised as home to the world’s worst human-rights abusers under new EU sanctions. The move will cover some 11 officials and four entities in total from the six countries. Russia is the EU’s main gas supplier (Photo: consilium.europa.eu) The Chinese officials are linked to Beijing’s persecution …

Al-Arabia – The US is communicating with Iran using “indirect diplomacy” methods, a senior White House official told reporters on Friday. “At the moment, there are communications through the Europeans and through others that enable us to explain to the Iranians what our position is with respect to the compliance-for-compliance approach and to hear what their position is,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan …

RFL/RE – A semiofficial Iranian news agency has reported a clash between border guards and a group of angry protesters near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran after a shooting incident. Fars news agency said the border patrol had shot and killed an alleged smuggler aboard a vessel near the port of Kohstak in the coastal Hormozgan Province on …

Iranwire – The repeated advice of the Islamic Republic’s health officials in the past two weeks has been “Do not travel”. The ban on traveling to and from cities on red or orange alert has been unequivocally stated by the National Coronavirus Taskforce. But these cities number just 50, a considerable number of which are within Khuzestan, and vast swathes …

RFL/RE – California-based singer Sassan Heydari-Yafteh, better known to fans as Sasy Mankan, has prompted threats and detentions by Iranian authorities who say his new music clip featuring a hard-core porn actress is obscene. The video, Tehran Tokyo, features sex star Alexis Texas dancing alongside the Iranian-American performer and at one point wearing — and then shedding — a head …