Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Zahra Nazarian, a woman on death row for murder, was executed in Sabzevar Prison. According to HRANA news agency, a woman was executed in Sabzevar Prison on 31 January. Her identity has been reported as 27-year-old Zahra Nazarian. She was arrested four years ago and sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her sister’s husband. At …

Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Iran in January Based on the registered statistics at the Center for Statistics and Documentation of Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM), and through extensive research conducted in this field, the final figures of executions in January 2024 have been obtained. It should be emphasized that the actual numbers are significantly higher, as …

Amnesty – Tortured protester Abbas Deris is at grave risk of execution after the Supreme Court rejected his request for a judicial review in January 2024. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial in relation to the November 2019 nationwide protests. His lawyers have submitted a special appeal in a desperate bid to halt his execution amid …

Al-Arabia – The Iran-backed Iraqi armed group Al Nujaba said on Friday it will continue launching attacks on US forces in the region until the Gaza war ends and US forces exit Iraq, days after another major Iran-backed group said it was suspending such attacks. Iraq’s shadowy Kataib Hezbollah said on Tuesday it would pause attacks on US forces, a …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he priority now for the White House must be to strengthen its military presence in the region, not reduce it. Worse, the vacuum created by any withdrawal by US troops is sure to be filled by adversaries of America and the free world. Any US withdrawal is sure to be seen, especially after the US surrender in Afghanistan, …

Iranwire – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the Islamic Republic would not start a war in the region but would “respond firmly” to anyone who tried to bully it. Raisi made the comments on February 2 after days of speculation about how the United States might retaliate after three US soldiers were killed in a strike in Jordan …

Iranwire – Molavi Abdulhamid, Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric, has called for a transparent investigation into the recent death in custody of an 18-year-old ethnic Baluch student.  Sepehr Shirani was arrested by intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the southeastern city of Zahedan on January 28 over his online activities, sources said. The teenager’s family was …

Iranwire – The father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a 21-year-old Iranian-Kurdish man who was executed for his participation in the 2022 uprising, has been languishing in prison for more than five months. Mashallah Karami “is still detained in Ward 15 of Karaj Central Prison, despite 164 days having passed since his arrest,” an informed source close to the family told …

Iranwire – An Iranian “adviser” of the islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed on February 2 in an Israeli missile strike that targeted the Syrian capital, Damascus, Iran’s media reported. The reports identified the dead man as Saeid Alidadi, without giving his rank. The Islamic Republic commonly uses the term “adviser” to describe its forces deployed in Syria to support …

Iranwire – The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence claims it has conducted a “large-scale” operation against Israel’s intelligence and security agencies that resulted in the identification of “dozens of spies and terrorist elements” across 28 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. The ministry said in a statement on February 2 that its agents had also gathered information related to “key covert …