Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two death row prisoners sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, were executed in Zahedan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were hanged in Zahedan Central Prison on the morning of June 26. They were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) in the same murder case. The identity of one of the men has been established …

RFL/RE – The speaker of Iran’s parliament said Tehran will never hand over images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired.“The agreement has expired … any of the information recorded will never be given to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the data and images …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]o see Raisi as a cleric heading a clerical regime would be a mistake. He is as much of a cleric as Saddam Hussein was a Field Marshal. It would also be a mistake to see him, as some American “liberals” have done, as more “open to the world” because he claims a PhD. However, to see Raisi …

VOA – Iran said Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers is possible but warned that Tehran “will not negotiate forever.” “Out of a steadfast commitment to salvage a deal that the U.S. tried to torpedo, Iran has been the most active party in Vienna, proposing most drafts,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed …

Iran-HRM – A border porter identified as Vahed Mohammadpour was killed by border police on Saturday in Sardasht, northwestern Iran. Vahed was married and a father to three. Border police opened fire on a group of border porters without warning and Vahed was killed among them. This is the sixth border porter killed by border police or security forces in …

Iran-HRM – A few days after the arrests of Dorsa Dehghani and Sina Kamali, some news sources and social media users, reported that security forces have pressured the two Baha’is to make a forced confession. The two Baha’i citizens were arrested separately by security agents in the southwestern city of Shiraz on June 14 and transferred to an unknown location. …

amnesty.org – This extensive analysis issued on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture presents Amnesty International’s documentation of the harrowing details of torture and other ill-treatment inflicted on unjustly jailed protesters Vahid Afkari and Habib Afkari since their arbitrary arrest in 2018, and shows how Iran’s prosecution and judicial authorities have ignored or dismissed the numerous complaints …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR stated : “Ali Khamenei, the self-proclaimed leader and religious dictator of Iran, last week in a scandalous show, through a sham of an election handed over the presidency of Iran to Ebrahim Raeisi, a man who has committed crimes against humanity.” The statement continued by stating : “Ebrahim Raeisi, known as the perpetrator of …

RFL/RE – The UN nuclear watchdog said June 25 that it has not received a response from Iran about extending an interim atomic monitoring agreement, after the United States and France warned that not doing so could imperil talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. The temporary monitoring agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran expired on …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Many people boycotted the elections and protesters called on US President Joe Biden to stop trying to return to the nuclear deal. “The government is telling people to vote… We are not going to vote in order to show the world that we Iranians are frustrated with this clerical establishment. We do not support a government that shoots …