Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Three Baluch men were executed on drug-related charges in Zabol Prison on Thursday. On the same day, five Baluch and an Afghan man were executed in Zahedan Central Prison. Four were executed for drug offences and one for “moharebeh (enmity against god) through armed conflict with military forces.” According to the Baluch Activist Campaign, three Baluch …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – A man only identified as Sajad was executed on murder charges in Shiraz Central Prison. According to Hrana news agency, a man was executed in Shiraz Central Prison on the morning of January 18. Sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, he has only been identified by the first name, Sajad. Arrested three and a half years ago, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammad Kariminejad, Hamed Manouchehri and Sobhan Shohani were all executed on murder charges in Ilam Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, three men were executed in Ilam Central Prison on the morning of January 19. Sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, their identities have been established as Mohammad Kariminejad, Hamed Manouchehri and Sobhan …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Houthis serve as Iran’s proxy in the civil war in Yemen and against Saudi Arabia, which backs the internationally recognized Republic of Yemen government. The UAE, which hosts U.S. military forces at Al Dhafra air base, has been a part of the Saudi coalition to support the official Yemeni government. With its decisions to delist the Houthis, …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “China’s leading diplomat underlined his country’s readiness to expand cooperation with Iran in financing, energy, banking and cultural sectors despite” the US sanctions. – Tehran Times, January 15, 2022. The agreement grants China significant rights over the Iran’s resources and help to Iran in increasing its oil and gas production. Leaked information showed that one of its terms is that …

Al-Arabia – The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned three Lebanese men linked to Hezbollah and ten companies based in Lebanon, Zambia and Germany. A statement from the Treasury Department said that Friday’s announcement showed how Hezbollah gained access to the international financial system to raise funds “in support of its acts of terrorism and other illicit activities.” For the latest headlines, …

Iranwire – Five people were killed and 41 more injured in a horrendous multi-car crash on the road from Behbahan to Ramhormoz, Khuzestan, on Monday. Two days later General Kamal Hadianfar, commander of Iran’s Traffic Police, revealed that not one of the airbags in the affected cars had inflated as they should have. He sharply criticized the country’s domestic car manufacturers, calling …

Iranwire – Since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan in 2021, several former Afghan soldiers have been arrested or have disappeared. Their relatives told IranWire that some of them are in prison on charges of “membership to the Fatemiyoun Brigade,” a militia linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. These allegations are widely believed to be false and appear to have become a tool for the Taliban to step …

Iran-HRM – In a letter from Kamyaran Prison, political prisoner Salar Sediq Hamedani referred to the torture he and his father had endured. In the letter, political prisoner Salar Sediq Hamedani, who was recently banished to Kamyaran Prison, wrote about his fathers’ illness and inability to endure imprisonment. He also explained that the confinement of political prisoners in Iran together …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi defended his country’s nuclear activities as legal and renewed strong criticism against the American sanctions regime that has battered the Iranian economy. “We are not seeking a nuclear bomb, and it has no place in our defense strategy,” Raisi declared in a speech at Russia’s lower parliament Jan. 20, as he refenced a 2003 fatwa, or religious …