Iranwire – A military trial of 10 individuals in connection with the Revolutionary Guards’ downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 took place in Tehran on Sunday, November 2021. Images and videos posted online show that family members of some of the 176 people killed in the crash on January 8, 2020 were left outside in the street. Family members held up pictures of their …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammad Safari who is on death row for murder, has been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least one man was transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution in Rajai Shahr Prison. The identity of one of …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Around 120 prisoners are currently on death row for drug offences and murder in Yazd Central Prison. Yazd Central Prison consists of 15 separate wards and houses around 3000 prisoners. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, around 120 of the prisoners are currently on death row for drug offences and murder. Prisoners with …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Death row juvenile offender Arman Abdolali has been transferred to solitary confinement in Rajai Shahr Prison in preparation for his execution for the sixth time. Emphasising that transferring Arman for execution six times is a clear example of torture, Iran Human Rights Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called for an immediate reaction from the international community and …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The “interim solution” imposed by Russia denies Azerbaijan control of the enclave while preventing its ethnic Armenian population to develop working state structures. In other words, the wound remains open with a Russian knife in it that could be turned anytime Moscow wished. Is the “situation” as developed in Transcaucasia a model of Russian behavior in the international …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai this month has led many around the world to question the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Games are scheduled to begin February 4. It is now time for the world to face the reality of the Communist Party of China and the horrific system it has constructed. …

RFL/RE – Iran’s private Mahan Air airline was disrupted by a cyberattack on November 21, Iranian state media reported. Mahan Air customers around the country reported receiving text messages from a group calling itself Hoosyarane-Vatan (Observants of the Fatherland), which claimed responsibility for the attack because of the airline’s purported ties to the paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The …

Al-Arabia – The US envoy for Iran warned Friday that Tehran was approaching the point of no return for reviving a nuclear deal after it boosted its stocks of enriched uranium before talks resume this month. Robert Malley said Iran risked making it “impossible” to gain any benefit from resuming the agreement, which has been on hold since then President Donald Trump …

Al-Arabia – The Iran-backed Houthis have yet to release the remaining Yemeni detainees employed by the US government, a State Department official said Friday. Meanwhile, the United Nations has slammed the group for its detention of locally employed staff and its breach of the US Embassy in Sanaa. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the very recent …

Al-Arabia – Three Iranian police have been killed this week, Tasnim news agency said Saturday, bringing to six the number of officers to have lost their lives in reported violence over the same period. On Friday, a captain was killed in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during a raid on a “base of armed robbers,” Tasnim reported. A day earlier, …