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Monthly Archives: July 2021

Who Is Iran’s New First Deputy Chief Justice?

iranintl – On Tuesday, Iran’s judiciary announced(link is external) that a cleric, Mohammad Mossadegh Kahnemoui had been named first deputy chief justice. The appointment comes as the new chief justice, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, seeks to make his own mark in the senior ranks of the judiciary following Ebrahim Raisi becoming Iran’s president-elect. The position of first deputy chief justice in the Islamic Republic matters. The …

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Brothers Amir and Akbar Jalilifar Executed on Drug Charges in Isfahan

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Brothers Amir and Akbar Jalilifar who were on death row for drug charges have been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. At least 45 prisoners, including one woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Isfahan Central Prison on the …

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4 Prisoners Executed in Shiraz Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four men sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, were executed in Shiraz Central Prison over the past week. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison on the morning of July 11. Their identities have been established as Hassan Nemati and Mohammad Hassan Taheri and they had been sentenced …

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IRGC official urged Iraq militias to continue hitting US, report

Al-Monitor -The intelligence chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) encouraged local militia leaders during a recent meeting in Iraq to increase their small-scale attacks against US positions in the country, Reuters reported today. IRGC intel chief Hossein Taeb visited pro-Iran militias in Iraq and Syria last week after the US conducted airstrikes late last month against two sites used by …

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U.S. Says No ‘Deadline’ For Iran Nuclear Talks

RFL/RE – Washington has said that it will issue no ultimatums on the window for a seventh round of talks on Iran’s atomic activities but added a warning over potential “nuclear advances” in the meantime. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that only Tehran can say when the talks — begun in an effort to revive the 2015 nuclear …

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Biden and the Mullahs: “Feeding the Crocodile”

gatestoneinstitute.org – Have the Biden administration and the European Union already forgotten the disastrous outcome of appeasing the mullahs in 2015…? US President Barack Obama pledged at the time that he was “confident” the deal would “meet the national security needs of the United States and our allies”. Throughout that time, the EU and the Obama administration not only initiated …

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Four Iranian Kolbars Shot and Killed in a Fortnight

Iranwire – At least four Iranian kolbars or border couriers have been shot and killed in Iran’s border regions in the past two weeks. Behzad Rahimi, an MP for Saghez and Baneh in Kurdistan province, revealed the killings during a sitting of the Iranian parliament on Saturday. Border guards, he said, were shooting directly at the victims’ heads and hearts. On the …

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Yousef Moghaddam: A Baha’i Stripped of His Rank as a Martyr of War

Iranwire – It has been more than three decades since the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, from 1980 to 1988, but the exact fates of many Iranian soldiers, who were killed or went missing in action, remain unclear. The Islamic Republic officially terms victims of this war “martyrs” and one of these martyrs was Yousef Ilkhichi Moghaddam, a Baha’i …

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Judicial authorities arrest drapery shop owner and several female models

Iran-HRM – Following the publication of a video from the opening of a drapery shop in which female models are present without hijab, Iran’s judiciary reported the arrest of some people. On Sunday, July 11, a video of the ceremony was posted on social media, featuring a number of women in ballgowns as models. The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of …

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Iran unveils Islamic dating app to encourage ‘lasting marriage’

timesofisrael— Iran on Monday unveiled an Islamic dating application aimed at facilitating “lasting and informed marriage” for its youth, state television reported. Called Hamdam — Farsi for “companion” — the service allows users to “search for and choose their spouse,” the broadcaster said. It is the only state-sanctioned platform of its kind in the Islamic Republic, according to Iran’s cyberspace …

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