Social and Political

Iranwire – A group of detained Iranian lawyers have published an open letter declaring their intent to sue Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former president Hassan Rouhani and ex-health minister Saeed Namaki, as well as all members of the National Coronavirus Taskforce and the Prosecutor-General. Mustafa Nili, Arash Kaykhosravi and Mehdi Mahmoudian were among six people detained in mid-August as they prepared to …

VOA —Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Israel Sunday, meeting with Israeli leaders. She called on Iran to return to negotiations on a new nuclear deal. Under her leadership, Israel and Germany have had close relations including cooperation on Iran and its nuclear program. The visit comes as Iran says it has 120 kilograms of enriched uranium. The trip …

Iran-HRM – Prisoners of conscience, Soheil Arabi and Behnam Mousivand, who are being held in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, refused to attend a court hearing on Wednesday, October 6, in connection with a case filed against them during their imprisonment. According to an informed source they were beaten on the order of prison officials after they refused to appear …

Iran Human Rights – October 10, 2021: Four men were secretly executed in Shiraz Central Prison in September. They had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were secretly executed in Shiraz Central Prison on September 8. Their identities have been established as Meysam Atefifard and Hadi Razi. Two more prisoners were …

Iran Human Rights – According to data recorded by Iran Human Rights, at least 226 people have so far been executed in 2021, including one juvenile offender, nine women and 83 drug-related executions. The sharp increase in drug-related executions has been evident since January. Three Afghan nationals were also executed in the last month. Observed every 10 October, the World Day …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The blood-curdling outburst may be caused by the fact that the usual chorus of verbal revolutionaries hasn’t yet realized that their regime is in rather poor shape and can no longer afford the luxury of pseudo-revolutionary logorrhea. On the other hand, the soothing tune may be a lullaby to send real or imaginary foes into a slumber. Taken …

Iranwire – Iran’s nuclear chief has said Tehran has far more enriched uranium than what the UN’s nuclear inspectors reported just last month.Speaking on Iranian state television late on October 9, Mohammad Eslami said Iran has 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium.In September, the International Atomic Energy Agency estimated Iran’s stockpile to be 84.3 kilograms.It takes about 170 kilograms …

RFL/RE – Faezeh Maleki died in a hospital bed in northwestern Iran, days after she was admitted with burns to some 85 percent of her body. Women’s rights activists allege that the 22-year-old, who recently divorced her husband, was the victim of a so-called “honor killing”: the murder of women for allegedly dishonoring the family, such as eloping with men, …

Iranwire – Abolhassan Banisadr, who served as the first president of the Islamic Republic after 1979, died in Paris on October 9 after a long illness. Until the end, he still considered himself the president of the Islamic Republic because he believed he had been removed from office illegally in 1981, through a “creeping coup d’état”. His critics, meanwhile, long accused him …

gatestoneinstitute.org – In the hope of resurrecting the disastrous Iran nuclear deal and subsequently lifting sanctions on the ruling mullahs of Iran, the Biden administration and the European Union have been silent on the fates of foreign hostages kept in Iran’s notorious prisons. Among the current foreign citizens currently held hostage in Iran is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British mother…. Amid …