Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Parviz Foroutani, a man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Neishabur Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Neishabur Prison on February 15. His identity has been established as Parviz Foroutani who was sentenced to qisas for murder. An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Parviz Foroutani was arrested …

Al-Arabia – Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government is working towards a peace deal with Saudi Arabia and stopping Iran’s aggression, adding that the two are “intertwined” goals, reported Israeli media on Sunday. Netanyahu said that achieving an accord with Saudi Arabia would be a diplomatic “quantum leap”, adding that he expected that “establishing warm relations with …

RFL/RE – The European Union will impose sanctions against dozens of Iranians, including judges, for their role in imposing death penalties on protesters, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on February 20. “Judges, prison workers, people who sentence others to death, dozens of them will get on the list,” Asselborn said before a meeting with other foreign ministers from the …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

Iranwire – Each week, hundreds of people are taking to the streets of the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan after Friday prayers, defying a bloody repression by the Islamic Republic on five months of anti-government protests. This is a selection of pictures taken on a Friday inside and outside the compound of Zahedan’s Grand Makki Mosque, the largest Sunni mosque …

VOA – Iran’s troubled currency broke below the psychologically key level of 500,000 rial per U.S. dollar on Monday, as market participants saw no end in sight to sanctions. The Iranian rial plummeted to a new record low of 501,300 against the U.S. dollar, according to Bonbast.com which gathers live data from Iranian exchanges. Facing an inflation rate of about …

VOA – Iran on Monday denied reports that it is enriching uranium to near weapons grade. “So far, we have not made any attempt to enrich above 60%. The presence of particles above 60% enrichment does not mean production with an enrichment above 60%,” the spokesperson for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said on Monday, according to the official …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that Iran was responsible for a reported attack on an oil tanker last week. An attack on the Liberian-flagged Campo Square was confirmed on Saturday by the ship’s captain, who said it was lightly damaged by an airborne object on February 10 while sailing through the Arabian Sea. Shipping databases linked …

VOA – A group of exiled Iranians will increase support for opposition movements in the country so they can continue to pressure the authorities there amid a crackdown on protests, the last heir to the Iranian monarchy said Saturday. Iran has been rocked by unrest since the death in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in September after …

gatestoneinstitute.org – It is, perhaps, more interesting to study the unintended consequences of this tragic saga. One such consequence is to bring war back into international conversation as a here-and-now reality. The idea that war could somehow be scripted out of the human story as were incest or slavery is exposed for what it is: a dangerous fantasy. This has …