VOA – President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi’ite Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a …

Al-Arabia – Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning comes on the heels of an interior ministry statement on Thursday that reinforced the government’s mandatory hijab law. “Unveiling is tantamount to …

Iranwire – An officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in an Israeli attack in Syria, the force says, amid an apparent intensifying Israeli effort to counter the Islamic Republic’s foothold in the war-wracked country. In a statement reported by Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the IRGC, one of the force’s military advisers and …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities are increasingly resorting to accusations of espionage when setting out to silence dissent, justify the inefficiencies of the Islamic Republic and secure additional funding for military and paramilitary institutions. Intelligence and security agencies routinely accuse those who attempt to uphold the rule of law, fight for their livelihood, protest to demand more freedoms and women’s rights of …

Iranwire – Ali Khamenei, the 84-year-old leader of the Islamic Republic, usually travels to the northeastern city of Mashhad twice a year amid tight security, for the Persian New Year holidays in March and during the summer. In his hometown, Khamenei resides in a palace in Malekabad Gardens, where he meets with relatives. He also discusses important issues with government …

VOA – Iran says it will provide information by Tuesday about Farid Safarli, an Azerbaijani student who went missing after traveling to Farid Safarli, according to his family. Farid Safarli’s mother, Dilara Asgarova, told VOA’s Azerbaijani Service that she met Friday with the deputy ambassador of Iran to Azerbaijan. The official said the Iranian Embassy would respond by April 4 …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Russia also reportedly wants to buy ballistic missiles from Iran, which has the largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. The Iranian regime therefore should officially be considered an accomplice to Russia’s war crimes. The Iranian regime, probably because it knows that the Biden administration will not take any action, is ratcheting up its …

Al-Monitor — The United States is seeking the forfeiture of more than one million rounds of ammunition intercepted by the US Navy en route to militants in Yemen as part of a larger investigation into an Iranian weapons-smuggling network, the Justice Department said Friday. “The United States disrupted a major operation by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to smuggle weapons of war into …

Al-Monitor – An Iranian diplomat criticized Azerbaijan on Friday after the Eurasian country inaugurated its embassy in Israel. Iran’s relations with neighboring Azerbaijan have been tense for some time, in part due to Azerbaijan’s ties to Israel.  What happened: On Wednesday, Azerbaijan inaugurated its first-ever embassy in Tel Aviv.  During the inauguration ceremony, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen discussed the “threat” from …