Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vahid Salemi and Behrouz Dinarbar were executed for drug-related charges in Shiraz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison on 12 November. Their identities have been established as 35-year-old Vahid Salemi from Sadra (Fars province) and 50-year-old Behrouz Dinarbar from Kahnuj (Kerman province) who …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- Afghan national, Reza Arbabzehi and Abdolhagh Gomshadzehi, a Baluch minority, were executed for murder charges in Zahedan Central Prison. Meisam Chandani was previously reported to have been executed at the prison that day. According to Haal Vsh, two men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 11 November. Their identities have been reported as Abdolhagh Gomshadzehi, …

Al-Arabia – British lawmakers and members of the upper house of parliament have called on the government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, saying it would be a step towards restoring stability to the Middle East. Proscribing the IRGC as a terrorist group would mean it would become a criminal offence in Britain to …

iranintl – An Iranian lawmaker has criticized an initiative to devise a 5-year development plan for Gaza, saying it is the responsibility of Palestinians, not Iranians. MP for Chabahar, Moeinoddin Saeedi, told Roydad24 website in Tehran, “We have managed to complete only 20 percent of our own country’s development plan and now they intend to write the first five-year development …

iranintl – Israel defense minister Yoav Gallant threatened a heavy cost for the Lebanese if Hezbollah “crossed the red line” as the leader of the group was delivering a speech. The Israeli army and Iran-backed Hezbollah have clashed almost daily since Israel started its war on Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas attack on 7 October. Gallant held a press …

iranintl – While Spain is in shock after a politician was shot in the face, Spanish media is whispering about Iran’s possible role in the assassination attempt. The former head of Spain’s center-right People’s Party in the Catalonia region, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, was shot on his doorstep in the wealthy Salamanca area of central Madrid at about 1.30 p.m. Thursday and …

gatestoneinstitute.org – A poll for the daily Le Figaro shows that 37 percent of the French still have sympathy for Israel, while Palestine gets 20 percent and Hamas 5 percent. Those I talked to in the demo seemed as if they had forgotten October 7, reminding me of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s phrase “What a miser is a human memory!” In the Saturday …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Above all, to speed up the release of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, there must be as few “pauses” as possible, and no let-up by Israel in military pressure. While the Israelis were urging the residents of northern Gaza to move south to avoid being caught in the cross-fire, Hamas leaders were ordering Gazans not …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for a summit on Gaza, state-affiliated media reported, his first visit since the two countries agreed to restore ties in March.The emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) comes after Hamas militants’’ bloody October 7 attacks that Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 …

iranintl – A senior official in Iran has said that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah have launched a “war of attrition” to destroy Western civilization. Alireza Panahian, a cleric and senior official in Khamenei’s office, was quoted by local media as saying during a television program that “With Israel’s destruction, Zionism will not disappear. Currently, Hassan Nasrallah and …