iranintl – Iran’s regime has taken one more step to tighten its control over entertainment content in line with its policy of enforcing religious restrictions on the population. The state broadcaster last week gained full control over content shown by privately-owned streaming services based on a decision taken by Iran’s Supreme Cultural Revolution Council.  Some filmmakers and actors have warned …

telegraph – In recent years the Iranian Ayatollah regime’s hatred of Israel and the repeated calls by its leaders for the destruction of Israel, often accompanied by harsh antisemitic expressions and Holocaust denial, have received a lot of exposure in the international media. Yet, despite the coverage, this has not always been the case and so cannot be viewed as …

Iranwire – Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed rebellion against President Vladimir Putin, which lasted for only a day when his Wagner mercenary group occupied Russian military facilities in Rostov-on-Don before a Belarus-brokered deal talked him down, can only be bad news for the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s rulers have no enthusiasm for a potential further weakening of Russian …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of an unidentified man for murder in Gorgan. According to Iran Online, a man was executed in Gorgan. The report which was published on 20 June, does not specify the date or exact location of the execution. The man only named as Hamed, is alleged to have committed murder …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hemen Mostafayi, a Kurdish man sentenced to death for the murder of an IRGC officer, has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Kurdish man executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 21 June. His identity has been established as 33-year-old Hemen Mostafayi from Marivan. He was sentenced …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Danesh Salari, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Kahnuj Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Kahnuj Prison on 19 June. His identity has been reported as 24-year-old Danesh Salari from Koulgan village in Roudbar. He was arrested for murder around three years ago in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The world isn’t running out of oil and alternative energies remain more of a promise…. The latest use of oil as a political weapon has come with the embargo imposed by Western powers on Russia. This time, too, the politicization of oil has led to unintended, but no less political, consequences. Russia is forced to sell its oil …

RFL/RE – Senior Iranian intelligence and security officials met last week in the northeastern religious city of Mashhad to discuss a coordinated strategy to counter what state media described as “plots” by the country’s “enemies.”The June 15 meeting, which was not reported by state media until a week later with no explanation, appeared to be intended to increase cooperation between …

RFL/RE – A number of Iranian activists and rights group have come out in support of protesting students at Tehran’s University of Art, warning them against increasing enforcement of dress codes, especially head scarves for women, across the country. The activists said in a statement titled “The voice of society’s majority to the entire system of the Islamic republic” that …

RFL/RE – The trial of Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested during nationwide anti-government protests in November, has been conducted behind closed doors, his legal representatives have disclosed. Representatives from the parliaments of Germany, Austria, New Zealand, and Italy, who have become Salehi’s political sponsors, announced on June 22 that the court proceedings concerning the singer’s charges were held …