Iranwire – US national-security advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken of his deep sadness over the death of a 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma early this month after being assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a headscarf. “I am deeply saddened to learn that Armita Geravand has died after being beaten by Iran’s morality police …

VOA – Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, expressed her condolences on Instagram regarding the death of Armita Geravand. “Armita Geravand, full of the enthusiasm of life, was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair, which she had no intention of hiding with ‘mandatory hijab,’” she said in her post. Geravand, 17, died following an …

VOA – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday said Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza “may force everyone” to act in the latest warning issued by the Islamic republic since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Israel has been pounding the Palestinian territory since Hamas gunmen stormed across the border on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, most of …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Hamas worked out a scheme to make Israelis focus on the West Bank and Lebanon as the two most immediate sources of threat while portraying Gaza as relatively calm. Iran may have helped sell that narrative in a number of ways. Israeli leaders were deceived into thinking that Gaza was calm and that future threats would come from …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hossein Ali Dil Baluch, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was secretly executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Birjand Central Prison on 19 October. His identity has been reported as 27-year-old Hossein Ali Dil Baluch who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges …

Al-Monitor – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned on Thursday that Gaza will “devour” Israel should the latter invade the densely populated coastal enclave controlled by Tehran-backed Hamas militants.   “Upon setting boots in Gaza, they will be buried there,” declared Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, using his signature anti-Israel rhetoric.   To the hard-line commander, the Hamas operation “was …

iranintl – The arrival of Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the United Nations has been met with fury as Iran wages a proxy war in the Middle East. The Iranian regime’s foreign minister is scheduled to speak at the UN Security Council on Thursday. Just this week, he met with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as it becomes harder for …

iranintl – A prominent reformist figure in Iran says supporting Russia in Ukraine was a strategic mistake and support for Hamas could lead to yet another strategic blunder. Mohsen Mirdamadi, the vice speaker of the Iranian parliament under the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami in the late 1990s and early 2000s, suggested in an interview with Etemad newspaper in Tehranthat that …

iranintl – The Iranian regime is planning to hand over the oil industry to the “private sector,” which will effectively place the national wealth in the hands of insiders. In 1951, the Iranian parliament seized control of the country’s oil industry which had been run by private companies, largely controlled by the British. The movement that led to the legislation …

Iranwire – In the picturesque setting of Qeshm Island, home to a majority Sunni Muslim and ethnic Arab population, a unique problem is silently getting worse. The Persian Gulf island, known for its natural beauty and cultural diversity, is home to a population of unaccounted and undocumented people whose lives, from birth to death, remain unrecorded and unacknowledged. Many of …