Social and Political

Radiofarda – A senior cleric in Iran has once again threatened Tel Aviv with destruction, while on Thursday, October 11, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Chief Commander has also claimed that “Israel is near its end”.

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities have increased pressure on political prisoners in Hall 10, Ward 4 of Rajaie Shahr Prison, By destroying the medical records of prisoners and preventing them from being transferred to a hospital or even prison clinic, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

RFL/RE – An Al-Qaeda-linked militant group is using Iran as its main transit point for illegal charcoal exports from Somalia, enabling the group to earn millions of dollars in profits, a report to the UN Security Council seen by media says.

VOA — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday it was not clear whether a foiled attack on a Paris-based Iranian opposition group was ordered by the higher echelons of authorities in Tehran.

gatestoneinstitute – One is amazed by the audacity wherewith those foreign interveners who have caused the most destruction in Syria call upon the rest of the world to foot the bill for rebuilding what they themselves have demolished. So the First Clause of the Responsibility Principle is that those foreign countries which intervened in Syria to pursue their own political …

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Since last month’s attack on an Ahvaz military parade, dozens of Ahwazi Arab citizens of Iran have been rounded up, arrested, and transferred to unknown locations in the Khuzestan province.

Shabtabnews – Nearly eight months have passed since the illegal house arrest of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, the spiritual leader of Gonabadi Sufis.

Radiofarda – An IRGC commander says “more than 1000 terrorist conspiracies have been thwarted within a month.”

Radiofarda – The son of the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri has accused senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of planting explosives in the luggage of unwitting Iranian Hajj pilgrims traveling to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in a failed 1986 terrorist plot.

Radiofarda – Tomato paste is not the most obvious economic indicator, but in Iran, where it is a staple that some people have started panic-buying, it says a lot about the impact of renewed U.S. sanctions.