Social and Political

Iranwire – The United States has imposed sanctions on a money exchanger and a network of firms across six countries accused of supporting Iran’s military, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted six companies, two tankers, and a money exchanger, all based or registered in Liberia, India, Vietnam, …

VOA – An Iranian court has sentenced a police chief in northern Iran to death after he was charged with killing a man during mass protests in 2022, local media reported Wednesday. Local police chief Jafar Javanmardi was arrested in December 2022 over the killing of a protester during the widespread demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Abbas Aghayi, Yasin Zolfaghari and his unidentified wife were executed for drug-related charges in Tabriz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Tabriz Central Prison on 25 March. His identity has been established as 36-year-old Abbas Aghayi from Tabriz (photo). He was sentenced to death for drug-related …

alarabiya – Aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower: Iran, the main supplier of weapons to Yemen’s Houthis, has provided intelligence on maritime ships transiting through the Red Sea, a senior US military official said. Washington has been conducting routine operations against Houthi capabilities since the group first attacked US ships last December, another official told Al Arabiya English aboard the Dwight …

iranintl – The victory of hardliners in Iran’s March 1 low-turnout parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections will have implications for Tehran’s foreign policy and the selection of the next Supreme Leader. Turnout hit a record low, with just 41% of eligible voters casting ballots, according to government figures many consider inflated. During the last parliamentary contest in 2020, there …

iranintl – US President Joe Biden faced criticism on Tuesday as the Hamas chief visited Tehran and praised Israel’s “political isolation” – just a day after the UN Security Council voted against Israel. The Biden administration abstained from using its veto power Monday as members of the UN’s most powerful body voted to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The …

iranintl – A member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Relations Committee has said that the current “weak government” is the result of the presence of “a corrupt deviant group”. Morteza Mahmoudvand, a parliament member from Khorram Abad, informed reporters that most of Iran’s problems stem from this corrupt faction within the government. He pledged to substantiate this claim with …

iranintl – The European Union is set to remove ArvanCloud from its list of human rights sanctions, according to a source close to European diplomats. The firm was sanctioned in 2022 for its role in Iran’s Internet censorship. Following this action, ArvanCloud filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice and simultaneously pressured European governments through political channels to revoke this …

Iranwire – The Supreme Court of Sweden has upheld the verdict against Hamid Nouri, a former judicial agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran, sentencing him to life imprisonment for “war crimes” and “intentional murder” of political prisoners. This decision is definitive and final. However, from a human rights perspective, the question arises: will Hamid Nouri be detained in Sweden …

VOA – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, on a visit to Iran on Tuesday, said Israel is experiencing “unprecedented political isolation,” a day after the U.N. Security Council called for a cease-fire in the Gaza war. “Although this resolution came late and there may be some gaps that need to be filled, the resolution itself indicates that the Israeli occupation is …