Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Keyhan Shakerpahani was executed for unknown charges in Kashan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Kashan Central Prison on November 26. His identity has been established as Keyhan Shakerpanahi but the charges leading to his execution have not been determined. An informed source told Iran Human …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei criticized the presence of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan and called on Baghdad to use its power against them.   Khamenei made the request at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who was in Tehran on Tuesday. Prior to the meeting, according to Iranian state media, Sudani announced at a joint …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s World Cup dreams were crushed Wednesday night when the United States men’s soccer team defeated their Iranian opponents 1-0 in Doha. Iran was seeking to advance to the second round of the tournament for the first time in history.  Why it matters: Tensions between the American and Iranian governments are not new, but the ongoing protests in Iran have clouded …

RFL/RE – The coaches of the U.S. and Iranian soccer teams have said that they do not want to get caught up in a game of political football when their sides clash for a chance to reach the knockout stage of the World Cup. “I envision the game being hotly contested for the fact that both teams want to advance …

RFL/RE – Hard-line Iranian lawmakers have proposed a plan to enact harsher punishments against protesters who they say are cooperating with “hostile” foreign countries. According to the plan, any interaction with any Western institutions and media, including social media, will be considered cooperation and criminalized under the title of “corruption on earth” — a charge that is punishable by death and often …

RFL/RE – Iranian truck drivers have continued to strike for a third day, with more joining their ranks across the country despite threats from security agents over undelivered cargo. Trucks in the central Iranian city of Isfahan remained parked while reports published on social media indicated that drivers in the cities of Qazvin, Kermanshah, Marand, and Bandar Abbas joined the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The CCP, as the Chinese Communist Party is informally known, has now lost hearts across the country. China throughout the Communist period has witnessed demonstrations, but most of them are, as Burton noted, “highly localized” and “directed at malfeasance, corruption, and incompetence of lower level Communist functionaries.” Now, however, the anger is directed at the Party itself. In …

Iranwire – A professor of law at Tehran University says 10 Iranian teenagers under the age of 18 will be put on trial on charges of “waging war against God” and “spreading corruption on earth”, which carry the death penalty. Mohsen Berhani tweeted on November 27 that the teenagers will be tried before the Revolutionary Court, which he said has …

VOA – An Iranian general on Monday acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding nationwide protests, giving the first official word on casualties in two months. That estimate is considerably lower than the toll reported by Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based group that has been closely tracking the protests since they erupted …

VOA – The Iranian men’s football team takes on the United States in a pivotal World Cup match Tuesday, with Iran’s players facing conflicting pressures on their behavior from their government and from Iranians supporting a nationwide protest movement. The Iranian and U.S. teams enter their final first round match with the U.S. needing a win to advance to round …