Iranwire – The dark and arresting sketches of Touka Neyestani, IranWire’s Canada-based cartoonist, have captivated our readers since 2013. Once an artist for Iranian magazines, in his later career Touka’s acid takes on the political situation in Iran – be they bleak and menacing, inducive of a guilty laugh, or gut-wrenchingly sad – won him millions of fans the world …

Iranwire – Forty years of institutional antisemitism in the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the country’s Jewish population decrease to a third of its pre-1979 size. Jewish people have been forced to flee their homeland by a toxic combination of ingrained suspicion, official marginalization, virulent antisemitic propaganda and the securitization of their daily existence. The extent of the Iranian regime’s deliberate persecution …

VOA – Afghanistan’s Taliban and Iran confirmed Wednesday that clashes had broken out between the border security forces of the two countries, but neither side reported any casualties. In a late-night statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said “a misunderstanding at the local level” triggered the conflict near the Afghan border province of Nimruz. Mujahid said “the situation is now under …

Iran-HRM – Monthly Report November 2021, Iran Human Rights Monitor On Friday, November 26, 2021, government troops and anti-riot guards attacked the sit-in protest of farmers in the dried up riverbed of Zayanderud in Isfahan. Many farmers and citizens were wounded and arrested in this raid. The State Security Force and its special units were stationed in three locations around …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, more than 300 protesters were arrested at the farmers’ peaceful protests against the mismanagement of the water crisis in Isfahan and around 40 people have lost at least one eye after being shot by security forces. Iran Human Rights considers the use of pellet guns against protesters …

Al-Monitor – Hot take: Will Biden administration leverage Israeli military threats in Vienna? While the parties to the Joint Comprehensive of Action (JCPOA) and the United States (which withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018) are gathered in Vienna to explore ways to reassemble the Iran nuclear deal, Israel is waging an unsubtle parallel effort to block a new deal …

Al-Monitor – Iran has begun enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges at its Ferdow plant, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday. The Iranian government started enriching uranium up to 20% purity using advanced IR-6 centrifuges, in violation of the 2015 international nuclear agreement to which Tehran remains a party. The enrichment cluster includes 166 of the advanced machines at …

Shabtabnews – In an open letter to Mr. Joseph Borrell IOPHR stated : “As you are aware and you have already been informed through numerous correspondences, the human rights situation in Iran is rapidly deteriorating. Especially, since, the arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings and the violation of the rights of Iranian citizens have become a daily routine of the Iranian authorities …

Shabtabnews – Ardeshir Fanaian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.  https://www.uscirf.gov/victims-list/prisoner/512 On April 30, 2019, Fanaian was arrested and taken to an undisclosed location after police raided his home.  He and two others were accused of “unlawful membership of an illegal group aimed at disrupting domestic security,” “participation in, formation and administration of an unlawful group intended to …

Al-Arabia – European diplomats said on Tuesday they could now get down to business in negotiations on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran but they still did not know if Tehran would resume the talks where they left off in June, when a draft accord was 70-80 percent complete. After a five-month hiatus, diplomats on Monday resumed talks on reviving the …