gatestoneinstitute.org – The beneficiaries of EU’s increased trade with Iran are most likely the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The EU’s trade with Iran, which helps increase the Iranian regime’s revenue, is doubtless making it easier for the theocratic establishment to provide weapons to Russia… The Iranian regime has, in fact, set up a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has reported the execution of Swedish-Iranian dual national and Arab dissident activist, Habib Asyoud (Chaab). He was kidnapped from Turkey by Islamic Republic forces in collaboration with international drug gangs in October 2020 and taken to Iran. Condemning the execution of Habib Asyoud who was subjected to torture following his abduction …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Faramarz Shakhsi, a man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Urmia Central Prison on 5 May. His identity has been established as 30-year-old Faramarz Shakhshi who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court. An …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Habibollah Faghirdadzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Isfahan Central Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Isfahan Central Prison on 4 May. His identity has been reported as 43-year-old Habibollah Faghirdadzehi who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court. He was on …

Iranwire – Rights organizations and activists say they have joined forces to form the Keep It On coalition to ensure pressure remains on the authorities to stop ongoing human rights violations in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan Province. In a joint statement signed by various media rights platforms such as Haalvsh and Baloch Activists Campaign, along with organizations including …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric again used his Friday sermon to criticize the Islamic Republic’s policies, saying that the intensifying economic crisis has impoverished many Iranians. “You have missed all opportunities to solve the nuclear crisis and have failed to address the issue of sanctions,” Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the south-eastern city of Zahedan, …

Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary has sentenced well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Gholian to two years in prison for “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.    “We received the news yesterday that Sepideh has been sentenced to another two years in prison, which effectively means starting over what we thought had just ended,” her brother Mehdi wrote on Instagram on May …

Iranwire – The Coordinating Council of Teachers Union has condemned the “brutal killing” of a teacher and trade union activist in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, and urged the authorities to identify and punish the perpetrators. Hossein Mehdipour was killed in an attack by unknown armed individuals on May 2, which coincided with Teachers’ Day in Iran, the …

VOA – Israel’s defense minister said Thursday that Iran could have enough enriched uranium for five nuclear weapons and warned Tehran that proceeding to weapons-grade enrichment could “ignite the region.” His remarks echoed international concerns, which have mounted over the past months, about Tehran’s enriching uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. Experts have said that the Islamic Republic has …

CHRI – May 4, 2023 – Strikers in Iran’s oil, gas and petrochemicals industries are being threatened with firing and labor activists are being rounded up and imprisoned as the Islamic Republic turns its focus to labor in its continued drive to squash peaceful protest across the country. In the days leading up to International Labor Day on May 1, dozens …