Iran Human Rights – October 10, 2021: Four men were secretly executed in Shiraz Central Prison in September. They had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were secretly executed in Shiraz Central Prison on September 8. Their identities have been established as Meysam Atefifard and Hadi Razi. Two more prisoners were …

Iran Human Rights – According to data recorded by Iran Human Rights, at least 226 people have so far been executed in 2021, including one juvenile offender, nine women and 83 drug-related executions. The sharp increase in drug-related executions has been evident since January. Three Afghan nationals were also executed in the last month. Observed every 10 October, the World Day …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Father and son, Hossein and Ramin Dadzadeh were executed on drug-related charges in Yazd Central Prison. At least 83 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, father and son, Hossein and Ramin Dadzadeh were executed on drug-related charges in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The blood-curdling outburst may be caused by the fact that the usual chorus of verbal revolutionaries hasn’t yet realized that their regime is in rather poor shape and can no longer afford the luxury of pseudo-revolutionary logorrhea. On the other hand, the soothing tune may be a lullaby to send real or imaginary foes into a slumber. Taken …

Iranwire – Iran’s nuclear chief has said Tehran has far more enriched uranium than what the UN’s nuclear inspectors reported just last month.Speaking on Iranian state television late on October 9, Mohammad Eslami said Iran has 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium.In September, the International Atomic Energy Agency estimated Iran’s stockpile to be 84.3 kilograms.It takes about 170 kilograms …

RFL/RE – Faezeh Maleki died in a hospital bed in northwestern Iran, days after she was admitted with burns to some 85 percent of her body. Women’s rights activists allege that the 22-year-old, who recently divorced her husband, was the victim of a so-called “honor killing”: the murder of women for allegedly dishonoring the family, such as eloping with men, …

Iranwire – Abolhassan Banisadr, who served as the first president of the Islamic Republic after 1979, died in Paris on October 9 after a long illness. Until the end, he still considered himself the president of the Islamic Republic because he believed he had been removed from office illegally in 1981, through a “creeping coup d’état”. His critics, meanwhile, long accused him …

Iran-HRM – Several political prisoners at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary were severely beaten and injured by a number of ordinary criminals hired by prison authorities on Friday.The hired inmates attacked the political prisoners with machetes and knives. The political prisoner were unlawfully kept in a ward that holds inmates convicted of dangerous crimes in Qarchak Prson. During the attack, Shapour …

gatestoneinstitute.org – In the hope of resurrecting the disastrous Iran nuclear deal and subsequently lifting sanctions on the ruling mullahs of Iran, the Biden administration and the European Union have been silent on the fates of foreign hostages kept in Iran’s notorious prisons. Among the current foreign citizens currently held hostage in Iran is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British mother…. Amid …

VOA – Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday. He was 88. Among a sea of black-robed Shiite clerics, Banisadr stood out for his Western-style suits and a background so French that it was in …