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Monthly Archives: May 2021

Scottish election 2021: Iranian regime ‘peddling disinformation’ in attempt to swing Scottish election

scotsman – Reported by The Times, cyber specialists working on behalf of the Iranian regime are targeting Scottish voters by posing as pro-independence users on Twitter and Facebook. The study by the Henry Jackson Society think tank reported that fake accounts encourage real users to share content and material of a pro-independence nature in the form of memes, graphics and …

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UN experts demand ‘immediate release’ of Iranian dissident filmmaker

Al-Arabia – UN rights experts voiced alarm Tuesday at reports that imprisoned dissident Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad was so ill he risked “serious complications and possible death”, demanding he be released immediately. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Nourizad, who has written and directed several films, has since 2019 been serving a …

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Iran’s Khamenei’s representative in IRGC slams FM Zarif over leaked remarks

Al-Arabia – Iran’s foreign minister’s criticism of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its late commander Qassem Soleimani in a leaked interview is an “unforgettable injustice,” the supreme leader’s representative in the IRGC said on Monday. In the leaked interview, aired last week by the London-based Iran International TV station, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif complained about having little …

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Tareck El Aissami: Hezbollah’s Biggest Benefactor in Venezuela

Iranwire – Last April, a man called Tareck El Aissami was appointed Minister of Oil in Venezuela by the Maduro regime. It came barely a month after this senior official, who has extensive ties to Hezbollah, was indicted in the US on narco-terrorism charges, with the Trump administration offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. How did this …

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Swiss Government Says Diplomat In Iran Suffered Fatal Accident

RFL/RE – The Swiss Foreign Ministry (FDFA) says an employee at its embassy in Iran has died in an accident, which Iranian news agencies said was a fall from a high-rise building just outside of Tehran. “The FDFA and its head Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis are shocked by the tragic death and express their deepest condolences to the family,” the …

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Iran authorities threaten political prisoner to death if he does not confess

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities have threatened political prisoner Vahid Afkari, brother to executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari, that if he does not “confess” he will be killed. According to reports, two high-ranking officials met with Vahid Afkari and told him that he should do whatever they asked of him, including confessing to the murder, in order to be released, otherwise …

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Iran Human Rights Monitor, Monthly Report – April 2021

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime again attempted to destroy the mass grave site of victims of the 1988 massacres to eliminate the evidence of its crimes against humanity. Iranian authorities in the past month banned members of the Baha’i minority from burying their loved ones in a cemetery that they have used for decades and pressured Baha’is to bury them at the …

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Iran Report: IHR Warns of Rise in Drug-related Executions

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least 82 prisoners were executed in the first four months of 2021. 22 of the 82 executions were for drug-related charges, a threefold increase compared to the same period in the previous two years where seven (2019) and nine (2020) people were executed on the same charges. None of the executions were reported by …

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Iran downplays state media report on US prisoner swap

Al-Monitor – Iranian officials say they can’t confirm an Iranian state media report that said the United States and Iran have agreed to swap prisoners, even as the Joe Biden administration forcefully shot down the report as untrue. Quoting an unnamed Iranian official, state-run TV reported on Sunday that Washington and Tehran had agreed four Iranian-Americans detained in Iran for …

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