gatestoneinstitute.org – By publicly announcing that an attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa is being planned, Heydari gives Israel a reason to claim “the right of self-defense” or “preventive war” if and when it decides to take military action against the Islamic Republic. He says that Arash-2 is capable of covering the estimated 1,100 kilometers distance between a launching pad …

Iran-HRM – Farhad Ghahremani who has been arrested for demanding a halt to executions in Iran was taken to the Investigation Unit of Iran’s police (Agahi) where he remains at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. The woman holds a placard reading "No to executions" during the gathering of families of prisoners who have been handed death sentences. Families of …

VOA – Arab media is reporting that an Israeli airstrike on a weapons depot in the vicinity of the Damascus Airport has left at a number of Syrian government soldiers and pro-Iranian militia fighters dead. Syrian TV reported that government anti-air defense missiles responded to the Israeli airstrikes that took place early Saturday morning in the region of Damascus Airport. …

Al-Monitor – Iranian security forces opened fire on Saturday on a crowd of protesters mourning the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by the “guidance patrol,” a police unit in charge of enforcing mandatory hijab rules.  According to Hengaw, a media organization monitoring the human rights situation in Iran, at least 13 people were injured, one of them in …

RFL/RE – A young Iranian woman who slipped into a coma while in the custody of Iran’s morality police has been laid to rest in her hometown of Saghez in Iran’s Kurdistan Province amid tight security measures. Hundreds of people reportedly attended the September 17 funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She died on September 16 a few days after being …

Al-Arabia – A group of Iranian dissidents and former detainees said on Thursday they were launching a federal civil case in the Southern District of New York against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ahead of his visit to the US to attend the United Nations General Assembly later this month.“The complaint will allege violations of the Torture Victim Protection Act and …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei attended a religious ceremony in Tehran on Saturday, state media reported, making his first public appearance following reports about his health situation. The supreme leader’s website released photos of him walking and waving to the crowd. On Friday, citing unnamed sources, the New York Times reported that Khamenei underwent surgery last week after falling “gravely …

RFL/RE – Eight people have been stabbed by unknown assailants in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the latest in a series of assaults against clerics and religious people around the country. The Rokna news website quoted the police chief of Shiraz as saying that the attack, carried out by a 32-year-old man, occurred after the end of a prayer ceremony at …

Iranwire – Mahsa Amini, aged just 22, died in Tehran’s Kasra Hospital yesterday, September 16, after being detained by Iran’s “morality police” for bad hijab and suffering injuries in detention. Her family has been pressured to bury her in silence in Kurdistan to avoid “chaos” in the capital. But the below account from citizen journalist Arezou Rahimi shows that crowds have already gathered in response to Amini’s …

Iranwire – The Kurdish Hengaw Human Rights Organization has reported that the Islamic Republic’s security agencies are pressuring Mahsa (Zhina) Amini’s family to bury their daughter “without any ceremony” and far away from Tehran so as to avoid any “chaos” or “unrest” in the capital. Amini – who is originally from Saghez, Kurdistan – died in Tehran’s Kasra Hospital yesterday after being detained by Iran’s …