alarabiya.net – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country’s armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of how many targets were hit, Iran’s official news agency reported on Sunday. In its first ever direct attack on Israel, Iran sent a barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones on April …

alarabiya – Iranian-British journalist Pouria Zeraati, who was stabbed outside his London home in late March, has said that he has been residing in a safe house under police protection following the assault. Zeraati, a presenter for Persian-language news channel Iran International, needed hospital treatment for leg wounds suffered in the London attack on March 29. Tehran has declared Iran International a …

iranintl – Following an alleged operation by Israel on Friday on targets in Esfahan, local media fears the fallout of the ongoing tit for tat attacks between Israel and Iran will have severe outcomes for the Iranian people. In an editorial for Setareh-e Sobh newspaper on Saturday, Ali Saleh Abadi criticized the regime for the “incorrect assessment of the consequences …

iranintl – A hardline Iranian lawmaker has said Tehran will punish Israel over its recent attack on air defense systems in Isfahan as the tit-for-tat conflict continues to escalate.  “The Islamic Republic of Iran will not leave unanswered any action against its national interests … Iran’s response can come in many shapes and forms but we will do it tactfully,” …

iranintl – Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in a message from prison sent to Iran International says the struggle of Iranian women against forced hijab is “resistance against the government’s oppression.” Mohammadi made the statement as she observed her 53rd birthday in prison, marking the tenth time she has spent her birthday behind bars. “The struggle of …

iranintl – Conservative officials and media outlets have scrambled to play down this week’s crackdown on women as hijab enforcement police have flooded the streets of Tehran and other cities. On Saturday, Javan newspaper cited the head of the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, who had called for more vigorous enforcement of hijab laws in early April, as saying in a conference …

RFL/RE – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will make an official visit to Pakistan on April 22-24 accompanied by his wife, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other senior Iranian officials, and a business delegation, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry announced on April 21. The visit is the first since the two Muslim neighbors exchanged missile strikes against the backdrop of the Israeli-Gazan conflict …

RFL/RE – Iranian officials have denied media reports about the imminent delivery of new Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to Iran. Reports in the Iranian media that the country is to receive the latest generation of aircraft in the next few days are incorrect, according to the Fararu news website. The media had referred to a report by the SNN …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Seven men including six Baluch and a Kurd were executed for drug-related charges. Five were executed in Kerman Central Prison and two in Chaharbahar Prison. According to Haalvsh, five men were executed for drug-related charges in Kerman Central Prison on 20 April. Four of the men have been named as 34-year-old Ahmadreza Miri from Zabol, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Valiollah Bakhtavar, an Afghan national on death row for murder, was executed in Tabriz Central Prison. “He worked at a fruit stall and had got into an altercation with his boss because they didn’t pay him and that’s what led to the murder.” According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, an Afghan man was …