CHRI – UN human rights experts have strongly condemned the Iranian judiciary’s secret execution of 27-year-old Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, who was on death row based on false charges since 2018. Following is the UN’s press release. UN human rights experts today expressed outrage at reports of Iran’s secret execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a member of the Kurdish minority in the country. The execution reportedly took place on …
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IHR warns of Possible Secret Execution of Protestors in Iran Prisons
Iran Human Rights (IHR) – In a speech prior to the Friday prayer sermons, Isfahan’s Chief Justice announced eight protestors arrested in the city had been convicted of “corruption on earth”. Iran Human Rights calls for an immediate response from the international community to the intensification of suppression and death penalty for protesters in Iran. Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the …
Read More »Explosion At Iran Nuclear Site: Accident, Sabotage Or Foreign Attack
Radiofarda – A mysterious explosion and fire in one of Iran’s nuclear facilities has opened the flood gates to speculations and analysis as to whether it was an accident, sabotage or foreign attack. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced on Thursday, July 2, that an “accident” had occurred at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in …
Read More »Mystery Group Claims Responsibility For ‘Operation’ Against Iran Nuclear Facility
Radiofarda – A mysterious group calling itself “Homeland Panthers” on Thursday claimed responsibility for the explosion at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility hours before its announcement by sending emails to a number of BBC Persian journalists. According to the website of BBC Persian, in the emails which were sent to the BBC journalists hours before any news of the incident had …
Read More »Central Bank; Where Iran’s Foreign Currency Resources Are Plundered
Radiofarda – The rate of exchange for the U.S. dollar has risen 2,700 times during the past 41 years since the start of clerical rule in Iran under the Islamic Republic system. During the past two weeks the rate has been nearing 210,000 rials per dollar due to an extremely sharp devaluation of Iran’s national currency. The decline has been …
Read More »U.S. Seeks To Seize Iran Gasoline Shipments Heading To Venezuela
RFL/RE – U.S. prosecutors have filed a lawsuit to seize the gasoline aboard four tankers that Iran is currently shipping to Venezuela, the latest attempt to increase pressure on the two sanctioned anti-American allies. The civil-forfeiture complaint filed in the District of Columbia federal court late on July 1 claims the sale was arranged by an Iranian businessman with ties …
Read More »Sweden Says Iran Agrees To Compensate Families From Downing Of Ukrainian Airliner
RFL/RE – Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde says Iran has agreed that it will compensate the families of foreign victims who died when a Ukrainian airliner was shot down after taking off from Tehran’s main airport in January, killing all 176 people on board. “We have signed an agreement of mutual understanding that we will now negotiate with Iran about …
Read More »Iran’s Leader Said It Was OK To Criticize Him. So Why Was This Man Sentenced To Prison?
RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assured a doctoral student in a 2016 meeting that there was nothing wrong with criticizing the country’s top official. “Speaking against me is neither [reprimandable] nor is it a crime, I’ve said it many times,” Khamenei said at the July 2, 2016, meeting with a group of handpicked students, including Mohammad Ali …
Read More »Setback for Iran’s Nuclear Program After Mystery Fire at Centrifuge Assembly Site
VOA – New details of an Iranian nuclear facility damaged in a mysterious fire suggest Thursday’s incident is a much greater setback to Iran’s nuclear ambitions than Tehran has publicly admitted. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security identified the facility as a centrifuge assembly workshop at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant in central Iran’s Isfahan province. In a …
Read More »Iranian Human Rights Activist, Atena Daemi, Sentenced to Further 2 Years and 74 Lashes
Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Imprisoned human rights activist, Atena Daemi, has been sentenced to a further two years in prison and 74 lashes for a fabricated new legal case against her. According to Iran Human Rights, Branch 24 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Mohammadreza Amouzad, issued a new arbitrary conviction against Ms Daemi. She has been …
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