RFL/RE – The United States has seized more than three dozen Iranian state-linked news website domains it accused of spreading disinformation. U.S. authorities have seized 33 websites used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU) and three websites operated by the Iran-backed Kataib Hizballah militia, the Justice Department said in a statement on June 22. Tehran called the move “not constructive” for …

Iranwire -Thousands of workers in Iran’s oil and gas industries have downed tools in protest over low wages and shoddy working conditions. The strike action was called by the Iranian contract oil workers’ union and could last for up to a week. Two days after the call went out on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, images posted online showed employees in …

Iranwire – More than 100 people have been arrested in southwestern Iran for taking part in weekend-long demonstrations against the outcome of last Friday’s elections. Judiciary officials in Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, said those detained were protesting in connection with the city council election results. Videos received by IranWire show a vast deployment of police …

VOA – Iran’s newly elected president has reiterated support for the 2015 nuclear deal and promised to stabilize relations with Arab neighbors in the Gulf region. Henry Ridgwell reports on what the world can expect from President-elect Ebrahim Raisi.

Iram-HRM – In his first post-election press conference, mass murderer Ebrahim Raisi, implicitly said that he shoud be applauded for killing thousands of Iranians. When questioned on his role in Iran’s 1988 massacre, mass murderer Ebrahim Raisi brazenly claimed, “From the beginning of my position as a jurist, I have always defended the people’s human rights. Human rights has always …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Soraya Haghdoust, a 28 year-old civil activist and member of Human House NGO, was arrested by security forces in Marivan on Thursday. Another civil activist, Aram Fathi, was also arrested in Marivan that day. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, civil activist Soraya Haghdoust was arrested by security forces on June 17. She …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Death row prisoner Habib Rezaei who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Salmas Prison. His mother suffered a heart attack and passed away when his sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court seven months ago. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Salmas Prison on …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – The prosecution has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man arrested on alcohol consumption charges for the fourth time. According to Iran newspaper, a representative from the prosecutor has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man who was arrested for drinking alcohol earlier this year after a complaint from a neighbour. The man, …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s health officials said multiple variants of the COVID-19 virus are raging across four southern provinces up to 50% faster than two weeks ago. The rates have now placed much of the country’s impoverished southern and southeastern strip in the country’s “red” infection zone. Iran’s health minister has already warned that the “stubborn” nature of Indian and South African mutations identified in …

sputniknews – The US Department of Justice has seized Iranian domains before, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign,” and US-based social media corporations like Twitter and Google have persecuted Iranian news outlets for years, but the wholesale seizure of a major Iranian news agency’s website is new. Two of the websites, Al-Alam and PressTV, are owned by Islamic Republic …