Iranwire – An Iranian judiciary official has said that a woman and 10 men have been charged over the death of a member of the Basij paramilitary force in the city of Karaj last week. Local media quoted the judiciary chief of Alborz province as saying on November 12 that the militiaman, identified as Ruhollah Ajamian, was killed by “rioters.” …

Iranwire – Iran’s national sitting volleyball team has become the latest group of Iranian athletes that has declined to sing the national anthem before or after a match, in a show of defiance against a clerical regime that has been facing nationwide protests for weeks. Iran’s men’s sitting volleyball team won the world championship for the eighth time on November …

Iranwire – “After he was born on April 4, 1993, they named him after his uncle Esmail who was a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war [in the 1980s]. His uncle was killed on the frontline, and [Esmail] was killed on a pavement in Shiraz,” a source close to Esmail Shanbedi’s family tells IranWire. Esmail, 29, was seriously injured by security …

Iranwire – For the first time in the Islamic Republic’s more than four-decade history, a high-level Iranian Shia cleric has issued a fatwa, or Islamic decree, making it “mandatory” for Muslims to defend themselves or other Muslims against armed plainclothesmen. According to Shia religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), failing to undertake a “mandatory” action is a sin for Muslims, like refusing to …

Iranwire – British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in London following a series of “serious threats against journalists” living in the U.K. “I summoned the Iranian representative today to make clear that we do not tolerate threats to life and intimidation of any kind towards journalists, or any individual, living in the U.K.,” Foreign Secretary …

Iran-HRM – The trial of political prisoner Seyyed Javad Seyyedi was held at Branch 29 of Tehran Court, presided over by Judge Mazloum. The trial took place while Saeedeh Hosseinzadeh, the political prisoner’s lawyer, was not given permission to appear at the court. The charges brought against Seyyed Javad Seyyedi during this trial was “insulting Khamenei,” and “assembly and collusion …

Iran-HRM – On Sunday, October 30, 2022, Branch 29 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court held a hearing for Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh, Ali Hooshmandi Fotovat, and Behdad Eskandarnejad. The three defendants were detained during recent protests in Iran. The prosecutor’s representative said, the defendants had participated in protests in Tehran on September 23, 2022. Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh had blocked the Ashrafi Esfahani …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 326 people including 43 children and 25 women have been killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests. Iran Human Rights calls on the international community once again to counter the killing of Iranian people with firm and timely action and reiterates the need to establish a mechanism to hold the Islamic …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – UN experts issued a statement today urging Iranian authorities to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests and reiterated their call to immediately release all protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty for the sole reason of exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly and …

Al-Monitor – With the US midterm elections over, don’t be surprised if Washington and Tehran make a final run to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. US President Joe Biden preferred to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the sidelines during the campaign. The administration’s priority has instead been how to support protesters in Iran, following the death in …