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Thanks to Obama’s ‘Nuclear Deal,’ Iran Now a Major Arms Exporter

gatestoneinstitute.org – In the next phase of Iran’s dangerous development, export and proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is attempting to set up drone assembly lines abroad, likely to expedite the process of weapons delivery to its allies. “Moscow and Tehran are moving ahead with plans to build a new factory in Russia that could make at least 6,000 …

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Blinding As A Weapon (15): Zoha Mousavi “Went Blind So That Others Can See”

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

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Azar Nafisi On Iranian Women And Atwood’s Republic of Gilead

Iranwire – On February 15, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) presented its Press Freedom Award to Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who have been imprisoned for publishing reports about the death and the funeral of Mahsa Amini. Shahram Rafizadeh, an Iranian journalist, received the award from Canadian writer and poet Margaret Atwood on behalf of her two …

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Human Rights and AI: An IranWire Adventure

Iranwire – We all know there’s nothing intelligent about the abuse of human rights in Iran. So what can we learn about the situation facing women, ethnic and religious minorities, political dissidents, and indeed all Iranians, from an artificial intelligence (AI)? IranWire sat down with ChatGPT, the head-turning conversational “language model” made by the tech startup OpenAI, to find out. ChatGPT has …

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Iran’s revolution of freedom

ecfr – A revolution is under way in Iran. A revolution started by women who have managed to win over almost the entire nation to their cause. They fight fearlessly for freedom and against the terror of the Islamic regime, which has oppressed the largely secular population for 44 years now. Freedom or terror – this is what the Iranian revolution is about. The …

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The West encourages Iran’s regime to rape, kidnap and kill

Al-Arabia – After the US foiled a 2021 plot by the Islamic Republic of Iran to kidnap dissident journalist Masih Alinejad from Brooklyn, New York, the regime has continued undeterred in its efforts to kill the US citizen of Iranian origin on American soil. On January 27, the US Department of Justice unsealed murder-for-hire and money laundering charges against three …

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Blinding As A Weapon (6): Ghazal, Or The Power Of The Dragon

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. The report concluded that such actions by the security forces could constitute a “crime against humanity,” as defined by Article 7 of the …

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Iran: Selling Family Jewels to Buy Loyalty

gatestoneinstitute.org – What does an autocrat do when his support base is shaken by popular protests? The standard answer is: he tries to reassure supporters by increasing their privileges, thus giving them a bigger stake in the preservation of the status quo. Transfer of public assets to chosen supporters has a routine pattern. The supporter, usually a senior IRGC officer …

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Iran’s Raisi: A 1980s Killer of Baha’is

Iranwire – President Ebrahim Raisi, a longtime establishment figure in the Islamic Republic who has been Iran’s president since August 2021, was before his election a senior judiciary official for more than 40 years. His role as a prosector in political executions is well-documented – but what is less widely-reported is that members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority were also executed under Raisi …

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