iranintl.com – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday endorsed the election—some say selection—of Ebrahim Raisi as his next president. In a traditional ceremony—the thirteenth such gathering under the Islamic Republic(link is external)—Khamenei was flanked by the heads of major branches of government—including Chairman of the Expediency Council Sadegh Larijani, Secretary of the Guardian Council Ahmad Jannati, outgoing President Hassan …

Iranwire – The number of reported coronavirus cases in Iran surpassed 4 million on August 4 amid a vicious wave of infections driven by the highly contagious delta variant.Iran registered 39,357 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total since the pandemic started to 4,019,084, the Health Ministry said.It recorded 409 deaths over the same period, bringing the …

Iranwire – Four Christian converts have been charged with “propaganda against the regime” and “conspiracy and gathering against national security” after appearing in court on August 3. They were released on bail after being informed of their charges. Alireza Varak-Shah, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour and Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi were summoned along with four other Christian converts in the city of Dezful in Khuzestan …

Iranwire – In the wake of reports that the Iranian authorities have set extortionate bails for children arrested during protests in Khuzestan, Sadegh Moradi, head of the province’s Justice Department, reiterated on Wednesday, August 4 that many of the detainees had been released “unconditionally”. It came even as human rights activists in Khuzestan reported that more civilian protesters had been arrested and taken …

Iranwire – On Monday, August 3, the homes of at least three Baha’i families in northern Iran were torn down without warning by state forces. Police and municipal agents demolished the homes of the Sabetian, Derakhshan and Enayati families in the village of Roshan Kuh, Mazandaran province, without any warning and on questionable grounds. An eyewitness told IranWire the houses were ransacked by staff …

amnesty.org – Iranian authorities have secretly executed a young man who was a child at the time of his arrest and had spent nearly a decade on death row, Amnesty International has learned. Sajad Sanjari was hanged in Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah province at dawn on 2 August, but his family were not told until a prison official asked them …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Ebrahim Raeisi’s inauguration as the new President of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be take place tomorrow, August 5. Some countries have sent representatives to attend the ceremony. Recalling that Ebrahim Raeisi stands accused of crimes against humanity in the 1988 prison massacre and in gross of violation of human rights in the subsequent years, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two men who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been executed in Mashhad Central Prison. According to the official Khorasan newspaper, two men were executed in Mashhad Central Prison on August 1. Their identities have only been reported as 57-year-old Hassan and 55-year-old Ali. Hassan was reported to have killed his older brother over inherited …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four men who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been executed in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, four men were executed on murder charges in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning of July 31. Their identities have not been established at the time of writing. At the time of …

CHR – Elderly dual national prisoners Mehran Raoof, 66, and Nahid Taghavi, 64, were among five prisoners held on trumped-up charges who were sentenced to jail in Iran today, August 4, 2021. The sentences come as Iran’s overcrowded prisons remain rife with risk, with new COVID-19 infections continuing to shatter records throughout the country. “To condemn two peaceful, elderly people …