Iranwire – Referee Gelareh Nazemi has again made history, defying Iran’s federation rules to officiate in the Futsal World Cup in Lithuania. Nazemi, who had previously become the first Iranian woman to referee in the men’s competition in the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, presided over the World Cup match between Guatemala and Egypt on September 15 in Lithuania. Egypt won …

Iranwire – The trial of Hamid Nouri, a former senior official at Gohardasht Prison, for his part in Iran’s 1988 prison massacre continues in Sweden. During the 15th hearing at Stockholm District Court on Tuesday, September 14, Ramazan Fathi, a former political prisoner, testified on his observations of Nouri’s involvement in the killings. Fathi, the seventh plaintiff in the criminal case against Nouri, …

Iranwire – The verdict in a massive corruption case involving Iran’s Petrochemical Commercial Company was finally announced on September 5, 2021. CEO Reza Hamzehlou, vice president Abbas Samimi, board members Alireza Alaei Rahmani and Mostafa Tehrani, commercial director Mohsen Ahmadian, and Marjan Sheikhoeslami, CEO of supplier Deniz Company, were each sentenced to 20 years in prison, 74 lashes, a permanent ban on …

Al-Monitor – Flights between Iran and Afghanistan have resumed after receiving permission from Iranian and Afghan aviation authorities. The private Iranian airline Mahan Air flew 19 passengers on a charter flight from the holy city of Mashhad to the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday. Mahan then brought 26 people back to Mashhad. There was also a flight from Kabul to Tehran. The flights took …

Al-Monitor – The election of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was bound to bring about a number of changes not just within top cabinet positions, but lower-level jobs as well. One exception, some had hoped, would be continuity with the staff of nuclear negotiators. That hope may have been dashed with the replacement of pragmatic Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi with hardliner Ali Bagheri …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Hossein Gholampour who was sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Qom Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed on murder charges in Qom Central Prison on the morning of September 13. His identity has been established as Hossein Gholampour, who was arrested around four years ago. …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Kurdish political prisoner, Yasser Mangouri is confirmed to have died in custody after being detained by security forces. While the family are still awaiting the official cause of death, informed sources report the possibility of him “being killed under torture or shot following arrest.” According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, the family of …

Al-Arabia – Iran has gained the capability to produce enough fuel needed for a single nuclear warhead within approximately a month, analysis by the Institute for Science and International Security showed. The institute’s experts studied the latest data provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on Iran. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via …

Iranwire – It is one year since Iran executed Navid Afkari, a wrestler from Shiraz, after sentencing him to death on trumped up charges. Navid Afkari and his brothers Habib and Vahid joined thousands of people in popular protests across Iran in August 2018. He was arrested on charges of moharebeh [war against God] and of murdering a security officer. He …

Iranwire – Last night it was confirmed that the Foreign Ministry’s long-serving political deputy, Abbas Araghchi, one of the country’s top nuclear negotiators for the last decade, is to be replaced by Ali Bagheri Kani. The latter is a member of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s family and a noted critic of the first Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers, China, …