Social and Political

JPost – A group of Iranian dissidents last Thursday published a congratulatory letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, urging him to support democracy in Iran and continue Israel’s campaign to stop Tehran’s state-sponsored terrorism.The opponents of the theocratic state, who are based outside the Islamic Republic, wrote: “For more than four decades, threatening the existence of the State of Israel and hatred …

Iranwire – Iran-backed Afghan militias were behind an attack on a US military base at the Al-Omar oil field in eastern Syria, a military source has told IranWire. The rocket attack on the base in Deir al-Zour province, close to the former Conoco gas facility in Khashan, came days after an attempted drone strike on the same location. Four missiles …

Iranwire – On Friday, July 9, the Iranian website Ensaf News published a revelatory interview with an unnamed former intelligence official. But just a few hours later, the story was pulled. The operators stated that the piece had been taken down after they received a call from “a government supervisory agency”. The interview brought two new points to light. The first was …

Iran-HRM – Iranians have been reporting daily, prolonged, and unannounced power cuts since early May, leading to widespread difficulties. Patients are particularly at risk without life-saving medical devices during Iran blackouts; Both patients who are hospitalized at home and need medical devices connected to electricity, and patients who are hospitalized. Iranian officials said the blackouts will continue for at least …

CHRI – State Now Issues and Revokes Law Licenses, Crushing Independence of Legal Profession Due Process and Fair Trial Rights Dealt Further Blow by New Legislation July 12, 2021—In a sweeping grab of new powers over the Iranian Bar Association (IBA) that grants the Iranian judiciary the right to issue and revoke law licenses, the country’s judicial establishment, now led by human …

Al-Arabia – The Iran-backed Houthi militia confirmed that 20 of its military leaders had been killed in a battle in Yemen’s al-Bayda, Al Arabiya reported on Sunday. Fighting between the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and the Houthis raged in a battle for the al-Zaher district, south of the central al-Bayda province. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel …

VOA – Iranian authorities said no one was hurt in a blast early Saturday in Tehran, near the headquarters of Iranian radio and TV.  Iranian media said the explosion took place in a park, and that there was no damage. Amateur video broadcast on Iranian opposition media showed Tehran firefighters trying to extinguish what looked like a major fire near a …

Iran-HRM – A top aide to Iran’s supreme leader threatened an ICU specialist after he criticized the regimes Health Minister power outages in hospitals. After Dr. Mohammad Reza Hashemian criticized the regime’s Health Minister for power outages in hospitals, and demanded the minister to be tried, Ali Akbar Velayati warned him: “If you repeat such positions, I will have to take …

Iran-HM – She is one of the witnesses who personally saw Ebrahim Raisi in a torture chamber. While she was pregnant, soon to give birth, she was arrested in Hamedan and taken to a torture chamber to be tortured and beaten with an electric cable. In an interview with Iran Human Rights Monitor, Farideh Goudarzi introduces herself as an opponent …

Iran-HRM – Delta variant spreads in Iran with the regime’s mismanagement While Covid-19 has killed more than 235,000 people across Iran, the country has been hit by the fifth wave of the virus due to an outbreak of the Delta variant. Delta, now present in at least 85 countries, is the most contagious of any Covid-19 variant yet identified. Iran’s …