thenationalnews – Iran supplied Yemen’s Houthi rebels with weapons technology that helped the militants to attack Saudi Arabia, according to Rostam Ghasemi, a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s former economy minister. Mr Ghasemi’s admission is the first time Iran has confirmed it is helping the Houthis militarily. READ MORE US: Yemen’s Houthis launched more than 150 …

Al-Arabia – Israel’s stance on the Iran nuclear deal remains unchanged and officials from Tel Aviv will voice their position during a trip to the US next week, according to a report citing Israeli officials. Ties between Washington and Tel Aviv have soured since the election of US President Joe Biden and his rushed attempts to rejoin the JCPOA, an acronym for the 2015 nuclear deal. …

Iranwire – Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam, a student activist and Gonabadi dervish imprisoned in Greater Tehran Prison, has appealed to publishers and translators to send books to prisoners. In a letter seen by IranWire, Sharifi-Moghaddam describes conditions in the prison, which is also known as Fashafuyeh Prison, including the human rights violations that regularly take place there. Given the restrictions in the …

Iranwire – On Tuesday, April 21, several United Nations councils and other bodies were in session at the UN headquarters in New York to manage their internal affairs, which included choosing new members for the various commissions. The Islamic Republic of Iran was chosen to join two commissions, in two separate meetings. One was the United Nations Office on Drugs …

Iranwire – The private phone numbers and other details of more than 200 Iranians in the UK have been shared in a data breach involving the Iranian regime’s official cultural outpost in London. The Islamic Centre of England (ICE) was established in a former bingo hall in the British capital in 1998, by a personal envoy of Ali Khamenei. It works to promote …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces have paraded 34 young men in the streets to punish them for attending the Iranian fire festival which was heled on March 16, the state-run IRNA news agency reported today. The public degradation was carried out in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad with the presence of Judge Seyed Hadi Shariatyar, Deputy of Crime …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners in Arak Central Prison have been informed of being sentenced to death on charges of “insulting the prophet”. The two men were tried and convicted in a joint case. Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi revealed the verdict in the men’s case on her Instagram account. The men who are currently held in Arak …

Al-Monitor – The new deputy commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Israel on Thursday following a rare missile strike against the Jewish state that Israel blamed on the Syrian military.  Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh said, “The occupier Zionist regime should know that the resistance groups are stationed all over the planet next to their bases …

Al-Monitor – Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based advocacy organization, joined a growing chorus of Iranians to urge the release of veteran journalist and documentary filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad. “He is ailing and deprived from the right to treatment. His life is in danger,” read a post on the organization’s official Persian Twitter account. The statement accused Iranian authorities of “arbitrarily” imprisoning the …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released drone footage of a US aircraft carrier said to be in the Gulf and a clip of a “suicide drone test flight,” Press TV reported on Wednesday, at a time when the Vienna-based talks between world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal are underway. The IRGC “released strikingly precise and …