VOA -Iran has decided to temporarily suspend its secret Baghdad-brokered talks aimed at defusing yearslong tensions with regional rival Saudi Arabia, Iranian state-linked media reported Sunday, a day after Saudi Arabia carried out its largest known mass execution in its modern history. The Iranian news website Nournews, considered close to the country’s Supreme National Security Council, reported the government had …

Iran-HRM – Kasra Bani Amerian, a political prisoner with cancer, has been deprived of medical care for about a year and a half in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Kasra Bani Amerian can not withstand incarceration due to his health condition. The 26-year-old political prisoner has previously undergone chemotherapy. He currently has symptoms of leukemia and should be monitored by a …

Iran-HRM – Kurdish political prisoner Naib Asgari held in Urmia Prison fainted on Thursday, March 10, and prison officials refused to provide him medical care. The political prisoner, who has been suffering from a kidney disease for the past few months, has been experiencing seizures and anesthesia due to the pressures caused by his hunger strike and long-term detention in …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ebrahim Nasirkhah was executed in Urmia Central Prison after being sentenced to death on drug-related charges. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Urmia Central Prison on the morning of March 14. His identity has been established as Ebrahim Nasirkhah who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges. An …

Iran Human Rights Organization – Alam Yar-Ahmadzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas for “murder during a fight”, was executed in Khash Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Baluch man was executed in Kash Prison on the morning of  March 12. His identity has been established as 48-year-old Alam Yar-Ahmadzehi who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder during a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vahid Tabatabaei who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Rajai Shahr Prison, increasing the number of people executed at the prison that day to two. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on the morning of March 2. His identity has been established as …

Shabtabnews – Iran National Liberation Front (INLF) in an open letter to President Biden and EU warned about the fact the “Middle East is endangered by presence and infiltration of Russian and Chinese governments’ agents in Iran under disguise of commercial activities, while establishing strong military presence in the region. “ The letter pointed to the appetite of Russian and …

Al-Arabia – France’s foreign ministry said on Sunday that a ballistic missile strike on Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil threatened efforts to conclude nuclear talks with Iran.The strike, for which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has claimed responsibility, also threatened stability in Iraq and the wider region, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson said in a statement, reiterating that there was urgency to conclude …

gatestoneinstitute.org – It is hard to know what went on in Putin’s mind. But the past two weeks have shown that he has planned his war according to KGB rules rather than classical military strategy. He has relied on massive and indiscriminate use of force, and where Gerasimov and the professional military are concerned about losses among their men, he …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that targeted the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. A dozen ballistic missiles struck Irbil early on March 13, targeting the U.S. consulate’s new building and the neighboring residential area but caused only material damage and one civilian was injured, the Kurdish Interior Ministry said. The …