Shabtabnews – In a twitter statment Hamid Gharagozloo Iran Working Group Chair, @HGharagozloo1, shared his insight on Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee’s arrest. Iran Working Group Chair, @HGharagozloo1, insight on Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee's arrest:@IrfRoundtable @USCIRF pic.twitter.com/PVJBHIw1ws— IRF Secretariat (@IrfSecretariat) March 24, 2022

Al-Arabia – Following an Iran-backed Houthi attack on a Saudi Aramco facility on Friday, world leaders and organizations stood with the Kingdom in condemning the Yemen-based terrorist group. Per the latest update, Arab Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Malki said the fire that damaged two tanks had been brought under control and caused no injuries. “This hostile escalation targets oil facilities and …

Iranwire – In a news conference on March 15, Gholamali Mohammadi, head of Iran’s Prisons Organizations, claimed that Iranian prisons “are fit to be presented to the world”. The Iranian prison system, he said, qualifies because of “its treatment of prisoners, its respect for prisoners’ rights and dignity, prison conditions, cultural and educational programs, job training for inmates, sanitary conditions in the …

Iranwire – Earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian met his counterpart in Syria, as well as President Bashar al-Assad. Officials in the two countries were united in their stated support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It came in the full knowledge that Syrian civilians have died in their thousands in the past 5.5 years as a direct consequence of …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “By every indication, the Biden Administration appears to have given away the store…. What is more, the deal appears likely to deepen Iran’s financial and security relationship with Moscow and Beijing, including through arms sales.” — Statement from 49 US Republican Senators, March 14, 2022. With the increased flow of funds to the ruling mullahs, do expect an …

HRW – On March 23, 2022, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that Iranian authorities arrested at least 20 people after organizing a Nowruz celebration in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on March 21. A day later, the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj summoned at least 10 more Kurdish activists and others for participating in the ceremony and detained at least one other person.  …

Iranhr.net- Joint letter calling on HRC to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iran Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, call on your country to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 49th session of the Human …

Al-Monitor – — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, in an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor’s Andrew Parasiliti on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, says an Iranian nuclear deal is in Iraq’s interest. “It is true that the Iranian minister [Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian] called me and he mentioned that they had reached the last stage of the negotiations” in Vienna …

RFL/RE – Iran’s foreign minister says an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear accord that Tehran signed with world powers is closer “than ever before.” “If the U.S. acts pragmatically, we are ready to have foreign ministers of countries belonging to the nuclear deal’s joint commission gather in Vienna to finalize the agreement,” Hossein Amirabdollahian told a news conference during …

Iranwire – More than 1,000 Baha’is in Iran are in a “limbo” between their initial arrests, their legal hearings and their final summons to prison, according to a new statement by the Baha’i International Community (BIC), a situation that is “causing devastation to innocent people’s lives”. The statement was delivered by the BIC’s representative, Simin Fahandej, by video to the …