Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO – Ali Ranjbar, a Baluch man sentenced to death on drug-related charges was executed Bandarabbas Central Prison. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Bandarabbas Central Prison on the morning of 15 June. His identity has been reported as Ali Ranjbar from Minab who was sentenced to death for drug-related offences. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Four more men have been confirmed to have been executed for murder in Rajai Shahr Prison yesterday, increasing the number of executions to 12. At least 62 people were executed in Iranian prisons in the first two weeks of June. Iran Human Rights reported the execution of eight men in Rajai Shahr Prison yesterday. Newly obtained information …

Al-Monitor – Thousands of teachers rallied across Iran on Thursday to demand a decent life and call for the release of their colleagues, who are languishing in state-run prisons. In most of the protests in the capital, Tehran, as well as in major cities including Ahvaz, Sari, Rasht, Sanandaj and Kermanshah, the teachers were surrounded by a palpable presence of …

Al-Monitor – If Iran and world powers fail to salvage the landmark nuclear agreement, the Biden administration warned Thursday that it will continue to use its sanctions authorities to crack down on Iran’s petroleum exports.  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control unveiled sanctions on a network of Iranian petrochemical producers as well as front companies in China and the United Arab …

As Iran has been put under economic sanctions by the US and West, they have wasted no time in building other paths of trade over the years. New trade routes to the Far East with Russia, China and India are generally well known but what many have failed to observe is their relations with African countries. Raisi in talks with …

Merchants and shopkeepers at bazaars have continued protests in more cities across Iran as the economy reels from U.S. sanctions and the rial weakens to historic lows against the dollar. The Hrana news agency reported on June 15 that mobile phone sellers in the city of Najafabad in Isfahan joined the protests, closing their shops over the instability of the currency and …

RFL/RE – In a dramatic move, Iran has removed 27 surveillance cameras installed at its nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It came after the UN nuclear watchdog adopted a resolution submitted by the West that criticized Iran for failing to fully cooperate with the body. The censure angered Tehran, which warned of retaliation. The monitoring equipment …

Iranwire – Three children, a boy and two girls, are being prosecuted for making “immoral clips” on Instagram, according to Iranian state media. The three youngsters had a shared channel in which they appeared in short videos together. In the clips, according to the IRGC-aligned Tasnim News Agency, “Two underage girls are disturbingly present as ‘his [the boy’s] beauty queens’. The dialogue …

Iranwire – Online celebrities Amir Tataloo, Donya Jahanbakht and Sasha Sobhani have been summoned by Branch 8 of Tehran Criminal Court over a series of gambling sites they operated from outside of Iran. The three controversial Instagram stars are all understood to be in Europe after the Islamic Republic put out Interpol red notices against them based on complaints by …

Iranwire – The death of an Iranian journalist who reportedly had a heart attack after his rent increased made headlines of many newspapers. Fereydoon Bahrami, a veteran member of the editorial team at Hamshahri, was said to have been in good health but died suddenly shortly after his landlord informed him his rent would be put up several times over, putting him …