Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two Afghan men identified as Ali Morad and Heibat Rouzbi were secretly executed on drug-related charges in Taybad Prison more than two weeks ago. At least 77 prisoners, including a 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 on …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The “American illusion” of Rafsanjani, Khatami and Rouhani did great damage to Iran, principally by fostering the belief that the solution to Iran’s problems could only be found outside Iran. That illusion is now being replaced by the “Russian illusion” which is based on the same analysis. However, neither America nor Russia nor China or any other power …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Not only did the Biden administration – whose sole purpose in Afghanistan was to prevent another “9/11 attack” – hand the Taliban and the mullahs of Iran a major political and strategic victory, it also rewarded them with sophisticated, state-of-the-art US weapons worth $85 billion – courtesy of American taxpayers — which these terrorists will undoubtedly use to …

barrons.com – Iran paid tribute Saturday to a teenager who died of severe burns after having rescued two women neighbours trapped in a fire in their apartment building. Fifteen-year-old Ali Landi died of his injuries on Friday, two weeks after he helped the women escape their burning home and tried to throw a gas cylinder out of the window to …

Al-Arabia – Venezuela has agreed to a key contract to swap its heavy oil for Iranian condensate that it can use to improve the quality of its tar-like crude, with the first cargoes due this week, five people close to the deal said. As the South American country seeks to boost its flagging oil exports in the face of US …

Iranwire – Documents received by IranWire has shown that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the former mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017, provided the Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-IU) with no fewer than 23 parcels of land and property in the Iranian capital to be used as “safe houses”. The project, codenamed “Martyr Shateri”, involved the IRGC-IU’s …

Iranwire – A social sciences expert with in-depth knowledge of Iran has disputed official figures about the number of children who have been left as orphans after losing one or both parents to coronavirus, stating that the actual figure was somewhere closer to three times the stated number. The social affairs deputy for Iran’s Welfare Organization, Habibolah Masoudi Farid, told Jam-e Jam newspaper …

Iranwire – On September 19, 2021, the Iranian state-owned IRNA News Agency reported the death of a fisherman in the Hor al-Azim wetlands, Khuzestan province. According to IRNA, the man was killed in an explosion after a leak in the gas transmission pipe of a nearby petrochemical facility. Two other local fishermen, the report said, were hospitalized with serious injuries. …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have failed to explain at least 72 deaths in custody since January 2010, a report by Amnesty International has revealed. The inaction comes even as more than half of the recorded deaths allegedly resulted from torture or ill-treatment by officials. A major spike in deaths in custody was also recorded in 2020, in the aftermath of the …

VOA – A former Afghan policeman who says he is out of work under the new Taliban government is one of thousands of Afghans who have fled over the border to Iran in recent weeks. Abdul Ahad, a 22-year-old former officer, told VOA that he is leaving the country because he “has no hope for a future” in Afghanistan. “I …