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Monthly Archives: April 2022

Iran Confirms Centrifuge Facility Relocated To Underground Site Over Security Concerns

Iran has confirmed it relocated a centrifuge facility to its underground Natanz nuclear site, days after the UN atomic watchdog said it had installed surveillance cameras to monitor the new workshop at Tehran’s request, Iranian media reported. The machines, which were moved from Iran’s now-closed Karaj nuclear site, will be used to make centrifuge rotor tubes and bellows, crucial parts …

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Analysis: West’s failure to hold Syria’s Assad accountable motivated Russia’s Putin

Al-Arabia – The international community’s failure to stop mass killings and tyranny in Syria paved the way for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to proceed with his invasion of parts of Ukraine in 2014 and then again this year. This issue was thrust back into the limelight last week when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the UN Security Council. Last week also marked …

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Tackling the Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Threat

gatestoneinstitute.org – [N]o deal will stop the ruling mullahs of Iran from pursuing their nuclear ambitions. The only way to deter or stop Iran is to impose drastic economic sanctions on the regime again, thereby cutting the flow of funding to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and — one hopes for the sake of the repressed Iranian people as well …

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Mehdi Salehi Buried Under Strict Security Measures; Body Not Returned to Family

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Salehi, a protester who died under suspicious circumstances in custody, was buried under strict security measures in the early hours of this morning. Officials refused to return his body to his family who have been threatened that “every single family member would be imprisoned like Mehdi” if they speak to the media. News of …

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say ship smuggling fuel seized in Gulf, seven arrested

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they seized another vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its seven crew members, the second such incident in as many weeks. “Naval forces have seized a vessel carrying smuggled fuel in the [Arabian] Gulf,” said Gholamhossein Hosseini, a public relations official of the Guards, quoted by the state news agency IRNA. …

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Kurdish Traders Brave A ‘Killing Field’ On Iran-Iraq Border

RFL/RE – Kurdish traders known as Kulbars make the hazardous journey from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan, earning just enough money to survive. Some have fallen to their deaths. More have been killed by Iranian border guards, with 52 killed in 2021, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. https://www.rferl.org/a/kurdish-traders-brave-a-killing-field-on-iran-iraq-border/31793512.html

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Iranian Colleges’ Unwritten Rule: Protest and You’re Expelled

Iranwire – Recently a student named Maryam Karimbeigi was expelled from university, amid reports the Intelligence Ministry had opened a case against her. Her brother, Mostafa Karimbeigi, was killed by security forces during the 2009 pro-democracy protests in Iran. Maryam was informed of her expulsion from Islamic Azad University’s science branch on Sunday, April 10. Earlier, on February 21, intelligence agents had again raided …

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Jailed protester killed after being injected with ‘wrong medication’ in prison

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi who was sentenced to death for taking part in peaceful protests, died in a hospital today. He suffered a stroke in January after being injected wrong medicine in Dastgerd prison of Isfahan where he was detained since arrested. Authorities delayed his transfer to the hospital, putting him at grave risk of death. He was …

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Iran Human Rights Calls for International Fact-Finding Mission into Death in Custody of Protester

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh-Shahrokhi who was arrested in relation to the December 2017/January 2018 nationwide protests, has died under suspicious circumstances in the custody of Isfahan Central Prison. Stressing that extrajudicial killings have become a common and low-cost way for the Islamic Republic to physically eliminate its dissidents in recent years, Iran Human Rights calls for …

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