Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to two more years behind bars. Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced Soheil Arabi, a political prisoner held in Rajai Shahr Prison, to two years in prison and 5 million tomans fine for “spreading propaganda with the intention of disturbing the public opinion.” According to the indictment, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Juvenile offender Sajad Sanjari who was sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison last week. Massoud Esfandiari was also executed at the same prison and on the same charge in June. Juvenile offender Sajad Sanjari (Chalabeh) was executed on the morning of August 2 in Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizelabad). News of his …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Kurdish political prisoner, Ghader Mohammadzadeh who has been behind bars for almost 17 years, has been on hunger strike for a week in Yazd Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Ghader Mohammadzadeh who is a political prisoner in Ward 3 of Yazd Central Prison, has been on hunger strike since July …

Al-Arabia – “Urgent intervention” is needed to secure the release of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her husband said after making a special request to the UN to free her from a Tehran prison. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Richard Ratcliffe said it was inevitable his wife would face an “autumn in …

Al-Arabia – The Iranian opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party, the oldest Kurdish group in Iran and active in Iraqi Kurdistan, accused Iran on Saturday of assassinating one of its leaders in a hotel in Erbil. The party, which Tehran considers a “terrorist and separatist organization,” was banned after the 1979 revolution. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Lebanon’s problems are deeply political. The consensus on which the Lebanese state was founded from the start has been badly shaken. Formal government structures have been duplicated, and at times replaced, by shadowy organs answerable to no one except, perhaps, foreign paymasters. The minimum rule of law that had survived many upheavals including a full-scale civil war has …

RFL/RE – A senior European Union official says Iran is ready to resume suspended nuclear talks as soon early September, Western news agencies are reporting. AFP and the dpa news agencies reported on August 7 that representatives of the country have given assurances in recent days that the talks will be resumed in Vienna, according to the senior EU official, …

Iranwire – Vast quantities of Iran’s domestically-made Covid-19 vaccine were thrown away because of contamination, probably with live coronavirus, a source has told IranWire. CovIran-Barekat was developed last year by Setad, a massive parastatal holdings company under the control of the Iranian Supreme Leader. It received an emergency permit for use in Iran earlier this year despite a lack of published data around …

Shabtabnews – USCIRF today released the following new country update highlighting the government of Iran’s escalation of religious repression in 2021: Iran Country Update provides information about religious freedom conditions in Iran. It documents recent religious freedom violations against Baha’is, Christians, Sunnis, Sufis, and Yarsanis. The report notes two recent amendments to Iran’s Penal Code, making it easier for the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – If [Iran’s President Ebrahim] Raisi is granted a visa to come to the US, the Iranian regime’s legitimacy will be enhanced, and the regime will be empowered to try to kidnap more Americans on the US soil. The senators’ letter sheds a light on several examples: “In 1988, the United States barred PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat from entering …