Iranwire – The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) uncovered this week an Iranian cyberattack targeting Israeli jobseekers, local media report. The hackers are sending fake messages to users of job search websites pretending to be official messages from these websites, the Jerusalem Post cited the agency as saying on September 21.  The messages include a malicious link allowing the hackers …

Iran-HRM – On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 2:00 PM, Mohammad Mehdi Vossoughian, a resident of Golpayegan, was arrested by security forces at his residence and transferred to an undisclosed location. Fifteen security officers raided Mr. Vossoughian’s residence and arrested him after physical violence and beatings. According to the Iran Human Rights Monitor (IranHRM), Mohammad Mehdi Vossoughian, a 21-year-old student …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities are doubling down their oppressive methods of policing and punishing women and girls to quell widespread defiance of degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws since the popular “Woman. Life. Freedom” uprising in September 2022, severely violating their social, economic, cultural, civil and political rights and restricting their freedom of movement. View Report in English DOWNLOAD …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Analysis of protester deaths and eye injuries during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” nationwide protests reveals that repressive forces intentionally and systematically targeted women’s eyes and faces.  According to Iran Human Rights data, women made up 9% of slain protesters and 28% of those who sustained eye injuries. In a sample from Mahabad (West Azerbaijan province), …

Al-Monitor – The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, has visited Syria to oversee a joint military drill, media outlets in the Islamic republic said. Qaani, appointed Quds Force commander after a US drone strike on Baghdad killed its revered leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020, met senior Syrian officials in Damascus, Tasnim news agency reported late …

Al-Monitor — The diplomatic breakthrough that brought five wrongfully detained Americans home from Iran followed two years of quiet negotiations led by Qatar that could pave the way for future dialogue, a senior Qatari official told Al-Monitor.  On Tuesday, a US government plane carrying a group of Americans, including longtime prisoners Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz and Emad Shargi, arrived in the United States as …

iranintl – Faced with an apparent financial crunch to subsidize bread, the Iran is gradually raising prices, a move that can have both political and inflationary repercussion. To avoid public blame and anger the government is trying to redirect the responsibility to provincial officials, although the central government would remain the main decision maker. Iran’s economy minister Ehsan Khanzoudi said …

RFL/RE – Iran’s judiciary has sentenced Rahmatollah Nouruzof, a Tajik national, to death over an attack on the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the city of Shiraz last month that killed two people. The head of the judiciary in Fars Province, Kazem Mousavi, said Nouruzof was the main suspect in the attack and that he had admitted to ties with Islamic State (IS).Nouruzof, …

RFL/RE – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said on September 20 that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions. He told a news conference that the Americans have reached out through several channels “saying they wish to have …

Iranwire – It has been almost six months since Iran’s nationwide protests began, triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of the country’s morality policy. IranWire has in that time identified more than 50 protesters who have suffered serious injuries to their eyes – and in many cases, blinded – because of the violent tactics …