Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vali Mohammad Rigi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Zahedan Central Prison today. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 13 June. His identity has been reported as 62-year-old Vali Mohammad Rigi (Gangozehi) from Zahedan. He was sentenced to qisasfor murder. At the time of …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammad Hijwan, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Jiroft Prison today. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Jiroft Prison on 13 June. His identity has been reported as 40-year-old Mohammad Hijwan from Eslam Abad in Jiroft. He was sentenced to qisas for murder. At the time of writing, his …

Al-Monitor – Iran and Iraq signed an agreement today aimed at boosting tourist visits between the two neighboring countries.  Iranian Tourism Minister Ezzatollah Zarghami and his Iraqi counterpart, Hassan Nazem, signed the memorandum of understanding in Tehran. The agreement specifically mentioned joint projects on religious tourism following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, such as facilitating visas, building hotels and investment …

RFL/RE – Iran’s military says two officials who worked in the field of aerospace have been killed in separate incidents inside the Islamic republic. Ali Kamani, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) aerospace division, was “martyred” in Khomein in central Markazi Province on June 12, the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency said. Separately, Mohammad Abdous, an employee of …

RFL/RE – Authorities in Argentina have seized a Venezuelan Boeing 747 cargo plane with links to Iran due to questions over stated reasons for the aircraft entering the country. The Emtrasur cargo plane arrived in Buenos Aires on June 8, flight-tracking data show. It was then seized by the authorities, an Argentinian opposition lawmaker and Iranian media said on June …

RFL/RE – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called on Iran to resume talks “now” on reviving the 2015 nuclear accord before things get “much more problematic.” “Recent history tells us that it is never a good thing to start saying to international inspectors, go home…things get much more problematic,” IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said in …

RFL/RE – Iran’s national currency fells to its lowest value ever against the U.S. dollar, hit by continuing U.S. sanctions as talks to revive the global 2015 nuclear deal falter. The rial traded at 332,000 to the dollar on June 12, according to traders in Tehran and the Bonbast.com foreign-exchange website. That made the dollar more expensive to buy from the quoted …

Iranwire – Farhad Meysami is a doctor, teacher, civil rights activist and political prisoner at Rajaei Shahr Prison near Tehran, also known as Gohardasht. He has provided IranWire with a written account of recent executions in that prison. Meysami was arrested on July 31, 2018 by agents of the Intelligence Ministry who found badges bearing a message against forced veiling at …

Iranwire – Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro arrived in Iran on Friday as part of a wider tour also set to take in Algeria and Turkey. The two governments signed a 20-year “strategic cooperation pact” covering the energy and finance sectors, as well as some “defense projects”. Both Maduro and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi described the accord as the beginning of …

Iran-HRM – Reza Shahabi, a leading member of an independent trade union in Iran, who has been detained since May 12, started a hunger strike in protest at his continued detention. A board member of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), Shahabi was arrested on May 12. Intelligence Ministry officers arrested him shortly …