Social and Political

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Death row prisoner Omid Hashem-Zehi was executed at Zahedan prison on June 17. According to HRANA, death row prisoner Omid Hashem-Zehi (27) was executed at the central prison of Zahedan city, southern Iran, on June 17. He was arrested two years ago and sentenced to death for the charge of murder.  His execution has not …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Germany, Britain and France also appear to have turned a blind eye to a recent statement made by the IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, who raised serious concerns about possible clandestine and undeclared nuclear sites in Iran. Germany, Britain and France must put a stop to their mercenary appeasement policy and corrupt loyalty to the Iranian regime. …

Al-Arabia – Families of victims of the Ukrainian civilian airliner downed by Iranian missiles in January will meet with Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne to urge Canada to press Iran to hand over the plane’s black boxes, according to a relative of one of the victims. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 on January 8, …

Radiofarda – Iran’s presidential administration has denied accusations that a private residence for President Hassan Rouhani is under construction in Tehran’s Jamaran neighborhood. In a statement on June 20, the president’s office insisted that the 4,000-square-meter (43,000 square feet) property, which was said to be the “personal residence” of the Iranian president, “is in no way privately owned and has …

Radiofarda – Judge Gholamreza Mansuri is now the prime figure in one of Iran’s biggest ongoing financial corruption cases after he mysteriously fell from the 6th floor of a hotel in Bucharest and died on Friday June 19. He was defendant number nine in a corruption and bribery case in which the prime suspect is former deputy chief justice Akbar Tabari, with …

Radiofarda – The former deputy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Intelligence Organization has been appointed as the operational commander of its base in Tehran, tasked to defend the capital. Brigadier-General Hossein Nejat has replaced Mohammad Kowsari, who was the operational commander of the Sarallah base in the capital since June 2017. The new appointment was announced by Fars and Tasnim news …

Radiofarda – President Donald Trump told the Islamic Republic during his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma June 20 that if they wait to make a deal with the United States after he gets reelected, they will “pay a much higher price”. Trump who was speaking about his ability to make important deals with other countries, criticized his predecessor for giving Iran “$150 billion …

Radiofarda – In a statement released on Friday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it regrets that the Romanian and German authorities did not immediately arrest former Iranian judge Gholamreza Mansouri despite the RSF complaint against him. “This sudden death deprives the victims of a trial,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire has said. “It is shocking that the German and Romanian authorities …

Radiofarda – The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the new resolution of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sets “no obligation” for the Islamic Republic. In a memo published by the country’s official news agency, IRNA, on Saturday, June 20, the spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi insisted that the IAEA’s request to …

Reuters -An Iranian dissident was seriously injured in a knife attack in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden, a local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the victim’s family. The man, who was named by the Leeuwarden Courant newspaper as Sadegh Zarza, fled Iran in the 1980s and currently serves on the board of a Dutch organization that is critical of …