Iran-HRM – The spread of Covid-19 among nurses in Iran has become a disaster. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, the General Director of the Nurse’s House, announced in April that at least 130 nurses in Iran have died of the virus so far. He said nurses were being “massacred” in hospitals due to the vaccine delay. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam said that since …

Al-Monitor – The registration of candidates for Iran’s June 18 presidential election officially began in the country’s Interior Ministry headquarters May 11 and will continue for five days. According to Iranian media, on the very first day 57 hopefuls showed up for registration. Traditionally, candidates standing valid chances of victory hold off their appearance until only a few hours before the deadline. Yet at …

foreigndesknews – As the terrorist organization Hamas continues to indiscriminately fire hundreds of rockets into Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is encouraging Palestinians to continue the fight against the Jewish state. “There’s one destructive force behind all the recent violence in Israel and the region. The world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism – the regime in Iran,” said …

dailycaller – Chinese government officials are targeting Xinjiang women’s birth rates through IUD’s, sterilizations, surveillance, and threats, multiple women told the New York Times.  “The women of Xinjiang are in danger,” one woman told the Times. “The government wants to replace our people.” “You become their toy,” another woman told the publication, describing how she was raped by multiple men …

Reuters – France said on Tuesday that there had been some progress in negotiations related to Iran’s compliance on nuclear issues, but warned that there remained a lot still to do within a short time frame if efforts to revive a 2015 accord were to succeed. Talks resumed in Vienna on May 7 with the remaining parties to the deal …

timesofisrael – Some of the dozens of mortars and rockets fired into Israel by Gaza-based terrorists on Tuesday were made in Iran and smuggled into the Strip, the army said. In a statement, the army said that during the day more than 70 mortars and rockets were fired, with many intercepted. “Among the munitions fired at Israel were also rockets …

(Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Palestinians on Tuesday to build up their fighting power to stop Israel’s “brutality”, saying Israelis “only understand the language of force”, Iran’s state TV reported. “Zionists understand nothing but the language of force, so the Palestinians must increase their power and resistance to force the criminals to surrender and stop …

Shabtabnews – The threat that Hizballah poses to the United States, our allies, and interests in the Middle East and globally, calls for countries around the world to take steps to restrict its activities and disrupt its facilitation networks. We applaud the countries in Europe, and South and Central America that have taken action against Hizballah in recent years and …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned the Iranian government’s alarming escalation of persecution targeting Baha’is in Iran. In the past month, Iran’s government has raided Baha’i homes across the country and jailed more than 20 community members, including a woman recovering from chemotherapy. Iranian authorities also prevented Baha’is from burying deceased community members in a designated section of Khaveran cemetery until …

RFL/RE – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the Iranian parliament to reject a bill that it says would “help further erode Iran’s increasingly vulnerable press freedom” ahead of next month’s presidential election. In a statement on May 10, the Paris-based media-freedom watchdog says the proposed law would ban U.S. and British journalists from entering Iran and would ban the Iranian media …