VOA – One month after Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran following a cyberattack, Albania’s prime minister arrived Sunday in Israel for a three-day visit that includes meeting with Israeli cyber defense officials. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said he and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama discussed common challenges facing the two countries, “with an emphasis on …

Al-Monitor – Nearly a month on, horrifying details continue to trickle out from the killing of scores of civilians in Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan — the capital of Sistan-Balouchistan province and home to the ethnic Balouch community who are followers of Sunni Islam — under the Shiite-led central government.   The killings occurred on Sept. 30, a day described by …

iran-hrm – This human rights tragedy does not only concern the number of arrests but the systematic use of torture against the detainees. Iran’s Intelligent Forces have imposed extensive use of torture on these citizens while in detention. With the start of protests in Iran, responding to the death of Mahsa Amini who was killed in police custody, thousands of …

iranhumanrights – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has seen hundreds killed, including children, more than 12,000 arrested, and hundreds facing sham charges is a prelude to more severe repression if the international community does not act now, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran …

rferl.org – Iran’s judiciary says it has issued indictments for 201 people over their participation in antigovernment protests in the central province of Alborz. Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the chief justice of the province, said on October 24 that those indicted are the “main and active agents,” mainly because they invited people to protest on social media. He did not give …

rferl.org – Three prominent Iranian labor activists have been found guilty of charges related to their union activities and handed prison sentences. The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced teachers union activists Jafar Ebrahimi, Rasul Bodaghi, and Mohammad Habibi to cumulative prison sentences of four years for illegal assembly and collusion and one year for propaganda against Iran. The three …

rferl.org – Iran says it has arrested 10 people who were working for Israel as “Mossad-related agents” in the province of West Azerbaijan. The Islamic republic’s judiciary announced the arrests on October 24 but did not give details, including who the people were or the day of their apprehension. The judiciary said four of the 10 were accused of “corruption …

voanews –  Iran released security footage Sunday that it said came from its notorious Evin Prison the night a fire broke out that killed at least eight inmates, an effort to clarify the government’s narrative amid growing international pressure. The purported CCTV footage of the mayhem last weekend only added to the mystery of what happened the night of the …

alarabiya – Iran announced Sunday a contract with Russia to supply it with 40 turbines to help its gas industry amid Western sanctions over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, local media reported. Iran’s “industrial successes are not limited to the fields of missiles and drones,” Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company’s CEO, Reza Noushadi, was quoted as saying by Shana, the …

rferl – Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has said that an e-mail server belonging to one of its subsidiaries was hacked from a foreign country, state media reported on October 23. The agency said the hackers published some information online. It came a day after an Iranian hacking group, Black Reward, claimed on social media that it had hacked the internal …