gatestoneinstitute.org – After agreeing to extend the monitoring mechanism of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by reinstalling surveillance cameras a year ago, Iran then announced that it would not allow the IAEA to see images from the devices. The Iranian regime is also refusing to answer the IAEA’s questions about uranium particles found at three clandestine and undeclared nuclear …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities paraded seven men in the streets of Tehran as a way to publicly degrade and humiliate them today. They were accused of confronting and attacking the state security forces. In a humiliating manner, the police officers paraded the men in the village of Morteza Gerd where they live. The state-run Tabnak website reported today that seven …

Amnesty.org – The international community must use all diplomatic means available to stop the Iranian authorities from amputating the fingers of eight men, at least three of whom were convicted based on torture-tainted “confessions” following grossly unfair trials, said Amnesty International today. According to information obtained by the organization, the authorities have informed the men that they will be transferred …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Three Baluch prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Zabol Prison today. Iran Human Rights has recorded 24 executions in the last week, an average of one execution every eight hours. Of those, 14 were Baluch minorities. Condemning the current unprecedented wave of executions, Iran Human Rights calls on the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Khosro Tarek and Kamal Bayanirad were executed for murder charges in Ilam Central Prison. The execution of another prisoner was reported at the same prison on the same day. According to Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Ilam Central Prison on the morning of 8 June. Their identities have been established as 45-year-old …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ghlich Shokouhi and Vahid Behmaram were executed for drug offences in Urmia Central Prison. The fate of Mohammadreza Ghorbanzadeh who was transferred to the gallows with them, is unknown. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were executed in Urmia Central Prison on the morning of 10 June. Their identities …

Al-Monitor – Eight imprisoned men in Iran are set to have their fingers amputated for alleged theft after rights groups said at least three of the men were convicted in grossly unfair trials. Iranian authorities have informed the prisoners that they will face a guillotine machine in the coming days, Amnesty International said Friday.  According to the rights organization, the eight men were …

Al-Monitor – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited Iran today. During a two-day visit, he will meet with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.  Maduro sat down with the Iranian Spanish-language news outlet HispanTV upon his arrival in the Iranian capital. During the interview, Maduro thanked Iran for successfully sending Venezuela fuel in defiance of US sanctions. The South American …

Al-Monitor – Amid a host of pressing economic grievances, flaring tensions with the West and Israel and a nuclear deal on the edge of collapse, Iran’s longstanding drug problem has fallen by the wayside. Only now and then does the debate resurface to briefly grab headlines and disappear again, as was the case with comments in April by a senior parliamentarian who …

Al-Monitor – Driven apart by clashing regional interests, Turkey and Iran appear headed for a face-off in Syria, with Tehran explicitly opposing Ankara’s plan for a fresh military operation against Kurdish-held areas, wary of risks to its own posture in the region. Turkey has failed to get a green light from the United States to press ahead with the plan, …