VOA – Four Iranian policemen were killed on Sunday after attackers fired on a patrol in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan near the border with Pakistan, state media reported. “Three policemen were martyred in a terrorist attack on a police patrol unit,” state news agency IRNA reported. A fourth died later after succumbing to his wounds, state television reported. …

RFL/RE – Judges in Iran have diagnosed three prominent actresses sentenced for not wearing the hijab as mentally ill, anti-family, and antisocial, prompting top psychologists in the country to condemn the “abuse of psychiatry and psychology in the judiciary.” The heads of four leading psychiatry boards in the country went public with their criticisms after actresses Azadeh Samadi, Leila Bolukat, and Afsaneh …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Danish ambassador to protest against “the desecration of the Koran in Copenhagen,” the ministry tweeted on July 22. A day earlier, a man set fire to a book purported to be the Koran on a square across from the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen. Koran burnings are permitted in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, which …

VOA – Accusations of beatings and the use of tear gas have been made against members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by tourists in a scenic resort area of the country.Witnesses say that Thursday evening, a group of security officers — said to be wearing uniforms associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC — attacked tourists at …

BBC – It was the middle of the night when the phone call came. Gazelle Sharmahd was woken up by her mother, who told her that her father, Jamshid, was calling from his jail cell in Iran. Gazelle hadn’t been allowed to talk to her father, an Iranian-German businessman, for two years. “We didn’t even know if he’d already been …

Al-Arabia – Iran announced on Sunday that its morality police patrol units would resume operations after a monthslong absence following the death of Mahsa Amini while in their custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died last September, three days after being arrested by Tehran’s morality police for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for women. News of her death fueled …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric criticized the Islamic Republic’s brutal enforcement of mandatory veiling, saying in his Friday sermon that the vicious tactics used to force women and girls into covering their hair in public are fueling civil disobedience. Molavi Abdulhamid, the Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, made the comments on July 21, as residents of the restive …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have shot and killed a resident of the south-western city of Izeh who had been involved in last year’s nationwide protests, according to the Hengaw human rights organization. Seyyed Mostafa Ahmadpour died during a clash with armed forces on July 20.  Government-affiliated media outlets confirmed Ahmadpour’s death, describing him as one of the “instigators of …

Iranwire – Individuals donning uniforms of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) violently attacked a group of Iranian tourists in a northern mountainous area early on July 20, according to information obtained by IranWire. “At around one o’clock in the morning, while the tourists were preparing to sleep after a touristic tour in the Opart area, over 30 IRGC officers on …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Thanks to the appeasement policies of the Biden and Obama Administrations, the ruling mullahs of Iran, called by the US State Department the top state sponsor of terrorism, have now also emerged as a major arms exporter. Moreover, coupled with imminent nuclear bombs, they appear determined to ramp up their exports even further. Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad …