Social and Political

Al-Arabia – Iran’s daily Covid caseload crossed the 30,000 mark for the first time on Monday, its health ministry said, less than a week after the country recorded a daily infection record. For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page. In the past 24 hours, the Islamic republic registered a record 31,814 new infections to bring its total number of positive …

Iranwire – “Documentary The Spy Academy, on the subject of the abuse of scientific and academic settings by spy agencies, is to be broadcast on IRIB Channel 5.” This was the news published by most of Iran’s state news agencies at noon on Friday, July 23. According to the Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, The Spy Academy will “the first time, by going …

JPost – Palestinian factions and human rights organizations have called on Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to stop  storing weapons in residential areas following another explosion, which killed one person and injured 14 others on Thursday.They also demanded a thorough investigation into the explosion in order to hold those responsible accountable.Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion took place in a …

Al-Arabia – Protests broke out in the city of Tabriz in northwest Iran on Saturday in support of ongoing demonstrations southwest of the country, videos posted on social media showed. Protests sparked by a water crisis have been taking place in Iran since July 15. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The demonstrations …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s support for militias in the region should be included in ongoing talks in Vienna and the meetings should not be limited to only reviving the nuclear deal, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Nayef bin Falah al-Hajraf said at a virtual Gulf Research Meeting on Saturday. Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of other countries poses a …

Iranwire – He’s posted pictures of himself dressed in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps uniform, next to Ayatollahs and Grand Ayatollahs, from Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, to Naser Makarem Shirazi, to Mohammad Alavi Gorgani. He’s introduced himself under such titles as “Commander of Imam Mehdi Garrison” and “President of the Imam Sadegh Institute”. He’s delivered speeches about jihadi and charity campaigns. He’s only …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he so-called “nuclear issue” has always been a diversion designed to focus attention on a phantom while the living monster, wielding blood-soaked dagger, goes around spreading mayhem and murder. [Obama] failed, or refused, to ask the real questions: is the Islamic Republic not a threat to regional peace and the global rule of law with or without its …

VOA – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is condemning the violent suppression by Iranian security forces of protesters demanding action to resolve chronic water shortages in Khuzestan province. Peaceful protests took place last week in several cities across Khuzestan in southwestern Iran over water shortages and mismanagement.  Iranian security forces reacted by violently crushing the protests instead …

Iran-HRM – Iran’s IRGC and security forces have rounded up and detained scores of locals amid the ongoing protests over water shortage in Kuzestan Province. According to activists and local reports, the state security forces arrested several injured protesters from hospitals. A number of activists who had been previously arrested during the widespread protests in November 2019, are among those …

RFL/RE – One person was shot dead in Iran during the eighth consecutive night of protests over severe water shortages, bringing the death toll in the unrest to at least five. Two people also suffered gunshot wounds in the streets of Aligudarz, a town in the western province of Lorestan, state broadcaster IRIB’s website reported on July 23. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-protests-deaths/31373514.html The …