Iranwire – Iranian football team Sepahan was penalized with a 3-0 loss and a fine over a canceled Asian Champions League match against Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad, according to Iranian media. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has not issued a public statement about the reported decision. Al Ittihad was set to play Sepahan in Isfahan on October 2 but walked …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has handed an additional six-month prison sentence to Manouchehr Bakhtiari, a political prisoner incarcerated in the northwestern city of Qazvin, according to a human rights website. The Qazvin Revolutionary Court issued the sentence on November 1 after convicting Bakhtiari of “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, the Harana website said. Bakhtiari was arrested …

Iranwire – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate.” and expressed deep concern at the “lack of transparent and independent investigations” into reports of massive human rights violations. The Iranian authorities executed at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, up 30 percent from the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least two men including Yadollah Farokhi and Afghan national, Sadegh Tajik were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 1 November. Their identities have been established as Yadollah Farokhi from Kouhdasht and Sadegh Tajik, an …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of an unidentified man for murder in Golestan province. According to According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), a man was executed at an unspecified prison in Golestan province on 30 October. The unidentified man were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a policeman. The report states …

iranintl – Iran’s Supreme Leader has called on Muslim states to cease oil, food and goods exports to Israel to make it stop bombing Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack. Ali Khamenei made the remarks during a speech on Wednesday stating, “The bombings on Gaza must stop immediately … the path of oil and food exports to the Zionist …

iranintl – Yemen’s Houthis, armed by Iran, launched ballistic missiles at Israel’s southernmost city Eilat on Tuesday, in what could signal the expansion of the Gaza war. The Houthi rebels officially entered the Israel-Hamas war Tuesday, when their military spokesman announced that they had launched several ballistic missiles and drones aimed at Israeli targets. “The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that …

iranintl – A prominent conservative commentator suggests that Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stands a chance to win the presidential election in 2025. Naser Imani, stated in an interview with Tehran’s Khabar Online website that voters in Iran are likely to favor Ghalibaf to incumbent President Ebrahim Raisi. This shift comes as many traditional conservative politicians around Raisi have distanced themselves …

iranintl -Iran’s former chief banker says the government has printed about $5.6 billion worth of national currency in the past year, aggravating the country’s inflation rate. Abdolnaser Hemmati, the former governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), said Monday that the annual growth of the country’s monetary base was about 41 percent in August, which means that the administration of President …

VOA – The arrest of a prize-winning Iranian rights lawyer has compounded the anger expressed by rights groups over the death of a teenage girl who activists say was fatally beaten by the Tehran morality police. Nasrin Sotoudeh, 60, was arrested at the funeral on Sunday in Tehran of Armita Garawand, 17, whose death was reported by Iranian state media …