Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 18, 2022: Saeed Kashani, Khodarahm Narouyi, Hamid Narouyi, Seyed Abbas Mousavi and Amir Ali Shahiki were executed for drug-related and murder charges in Yazd Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, f men were executed in Yazd Central Prison on August 18. Three of the men who were Baluch minorities and sentenced …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – According to the Iran Judiciary spokesperson, Shahrooz Sokhanvari who was arrested by Interpol in Malaysia will be executed soon after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for “establishing a network of corruption.” Condemning the death penalty in Iran, Iran Human Rights is demanding answers about his alleged arrest and deportation from Interpol. Director, Mahmood …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohiyedin Damani, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Birjand Central Prison on August 17. His identity has been reported as Mohiyedin Damani who was sentenced to death for drug-related offences by the Revolutionary Court …

Al-Monitor – It’s not done until it’s done, but political analysts and oil-market experts believe a return to the Iran nuclear deal is closer than ever, with US and European officials reviewing Iran’s latest proposal.  If — or when — an agreement is reached, and the US ends sanctions imposed in 2018 when US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan …

RFL/RE – Three days after British-American author Salman Rushdie was seriously wounded in a shocking knife attack in New York, Iran “categorically” denied any links with the suspected attacker, 24-year-old Lebanese-American Hadi Matar. The Islamic republic, however, managed to place the blame on Rushdie, who has lived under an Iranian death sentence since 1989 because of his novel The Satanic …

RFL/RE – Tehran says it is ready to implement a prisoner swap with the United States and urged President Joe Biden to “act” and “remove obstacles” to making progress on the subject. Tehran has long sought the return of more than a dozen Iranians currently held in the United States, while Washington has been seeking the release of several Iranian-American …

RFL/RE- The United States and European Union said on August 16 that they were examining Iran’s response to a “final” draft text to revive a nuclear deal with world powers after Tehran said it submitted its views to the EU’s coordinator for the talks a day earlier. Washington said it had already given its response privately to EU foreign policy …

Iranwire – Iranian human rights advocates in the UK are poised to file a criminal complaint against Ataollah Mohajerani, an ex-Minister of Culture who wrote a book promoting the 1989 fatwa to murder Salman Rushdie. Mohajerani, 68, now lives in London. His book A Critique of the Satanic Verses Conspiracy praised the ailing Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for “all brave Muslims” to “execute” Rushdie, …

Iranwire – Outspoken politicial activist Faezeh Hashemi has called on Iran’s reformists not to remain silent in the face of a litany of injustices in Iran, as, she said, they had been in the past. In a video clip shared with IranWire, Hashemi, the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, tells the camera: “Since the last election we have …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, August 10, two days before the start of the 22nd Iran Pro League, the Iran Football League Organization announced matches this season would all take place without spectators. Eight games duly kicked off on Friday and Saturday before tens of thousands of empty seats. Earlier, the Iranian Football Federation and National Coronavirus Taskforce had agreed stadiums could be at …