Iranwire – The Iranian authorities have executed two more political prisoners, bringing to 707 the number of executions in the country since the beginning of the year, according to a human rights group. Ali Saber Motlaq and Kamran Rezaei were hanged on November 30 in Rasht’s Lakan Prison and Shiraz Central Prison, respectively, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said. Motlaq, …

Iranwire – Over 24 days after the arrest of Iren Rahmani, a Baha’i citizen and mother of two, her family still has no information on her whereabouts or the charges against her. Her family, particularly her two young children, aged 2 and 4, are struggling to cope with her absence and the uncertainty surrounding her situation, according to a source …

Iranwire – Iranian right activist Shilan Mirzaei, who has been languishing in a deportation camp in northern Türkiye for more than a month, says she will be sent back to Iran if she does not get a visa from a third country. In an audio file released on November 30, Mirzaei says she has been informed by Turkish immigration officials that …

Iranwire – The lawyer of Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has criticized the authorities over the “unlawful” rearrest of his client, saying that the new accusations against him are totally unfounded. On November 30, Salehi was returned to jail less than two weeks after his release on bail. The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said that he is accused of “publishing false information …

Iranwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Iranian authorities to immediately release from custody Mohammad Mir-Ghasemzadeh, who was reporting on alleged official corruption. On November 27, security agents with the Intelligence Ministry arrested Mir-Ghasemzadeh, a journalist in the northern city of Someh Sara, and took him to a detention center in Rasht, according to news reports and …

Iranwire – When Joe Biden became US president in January 2021, officials in the Islamic Republic of Iran expected that Donald Trump’s successor would not impose new sanctions on the country; in this, they were mistaken. President Biden’s administration was also expected to return to the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – and while it …

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities on November 30 rearrested a dissident rapper and returned him to jail less than two weeks after his release on bail, according to his own social media account. Toomaj Salehi was violently detained by armed plainclothes agents in the city of Babylon and then taken to an unknown location, according to social media accounts affiliated with him. The …

VOA – Israel has made its first public comment on Iran’s apparent coercion of its Jewish minority into staging unprecedented anti-Israel rallies a month ago, telling VOA that it believes the Iranian Jews who participated in them had “no choice.” “We understand perfectly [their] circumstances,” said Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy Emmanuel Nahshon in a …

VOA – The House passed a bipartisan measure Thursday that would block Iran from accessing the $6 billion transferred by the U.S. in a prisoner swap, a step Republicans pushed in response to the nation’s alleged role in the deadly attacks last month by Hamas on Israel. The measure — titled the No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act — passed …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Newly obtained information shows that two of the men executed with Ayoub Karimi in Ghezelhesar Prison on Wednesday were sentenced to death for drug-related charges and the other four were on death row for murder. This is the fifth group execution in Ghezelhesar Prison in November. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, seven …