iranintl – The UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) released a report on Thursday morning warning that Iran poses one of the gravest state-based threats to British national security, on par with adversaries like Russia and China. The report highlights Tehran’s escalating willingness to carry out assassinations, espionage, and cyber attacks within the United Kingdom, and calls for a …

iranintl – US President Donald Trump on Wednesday laughed off a threat by an Iranian official suggesting he could be attacked with drones while sunning himself at his Florida mansion, telling a bemused press corps he had not sunbathed since childhood. “Trump has done something so that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago,” Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a former senior advisor …

iranintl – When Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Iran’s president last July, jokes circulated that he wouldn’t last six months. He did, but the road ahead looks even more rocky now than it did then. Tepid support from the hardline establishment and deepening economic woes defined his first year, in which the Iranian currency lost a full half of its value. …

Iranwire – Three political prisoners were abruptly transferred from general wards to solitary confinement at Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz on Thursday, raising fears that their death sentences may soon be carried out. The prisoners – Ali Majdam, Moein Khanfari, and Mohammadreza Moghadam – had previously been sentenced to death on charges of “cooperating with groups opposed to the Islamic Republic” …

Iranwire – Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council returned a bill aimed at toughening espionage penalties to parliament on Wednesday, citing legal ambiguities. Mohsen Dehnavi, the council’s spokesman, said members supported the bill’s framework, but several provisions required clarification, including the definitions of hostile countries and the application of penalties during wartime. The Guardian Council also returned the bill, demanding clearer criteria for charges …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has upheld a six-year prison sentence for political prisoner Zohreh Sarv despite the Supreme Court accepting her request for a retrial. Her lawyer, Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, said that after the Supreme Court granted the retrial and referred the case to a parallel branch of the Revolutionary Court, the court rejected the Supreme Court’s arguments and …

RFL/RE – The United States and Iran are poised to return to the negotiating table at a moment when tensions between the two are high and trust is low. The talks were initially planned for July 10 in Oslo, according to RFE/RL’s sources, who now say the meeting has been postponed — likely to next week. Whenever they take place, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); July 10, 2025: Jafar Khoshkalam, a boutique owner on death row for drug-related offences, was executed in Rasht Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was hanged in Rasht Central Prison. His identity has been established as 41-year-old Jafar Khoshkalam from Rasht who owned a boutique prior to his arrest two years …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); July 10, 2025: July 10, 2025: Majid Rahmani, an Arab man on death row for murder, was executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was hanged in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison on 8 July 2025. His identity has been established as Majid Rahmani, a 35-year-old Arab man from Masjed …

Iran-HRM – The month of June 2025 witnessed a sharp escalation in executions, mass arrests, inhumane prison conditions, and repressive measures targeting political prisoners and minorities in Iran. A total of 114 executions were carried out across the country, 95 of which were unannounced by the authorities. Six individuals were executed on espionage charges, and several acts of violence, torture, …