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rferl.org – For over 20 years, the Imam Ali’s Popular Student Relief Society has worked on combating poverty and helping vulnerable children in Iran. But the charity, which has over 10,000 volunteers across Iran, has come under mounting pressure from the authorities in recent years. In 2021, an Iranian court ordered the independent NGO be dissolved, a ruling that was …

Iranwire – Majid Khademi, a 32-year-old activist from Behbahan in Khuzestan Province, was sentenced to 10 years and three months in prison after entering a plea of no contest. The Mahshahr Revolutionary Court handed down the sentence on charges of “propaganda against the system,” “membership in hostile groups,” “disturbance of public order,” “damage to public property,” “acting against national security” …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed his “full support” following the aborted mutiny of a mercenary chief, the Kremlin said. “The Iranian president expressed full support for the Russian leadership in connection with the June 24 events,” the Kremlin said. Putin also received a call from Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim …

RFL/RE – Senior Iranian intelligence and security officials met last week in the northeastern religious city of Mashhad to discuss a coordinated strategy to counter what state media described as “plots” by the country’s “enemies.”The June 15 meeting, which was not reported by state media until a week later with no explanation, appeared to be intended to increase cooperation between …

VOA – France has banned an upcoming Iranian opposition rally over the risk of an attack, according to a letter sent to the organizers and seen by Reuters, after the release of an Iranian diplomat convicted of masterminding a plot to bomb the group in 2018. The ban comes as Western powers seek to defuse tensions with Iran and a …

Al-Arabia- US and Iranian officials engaged in indirect talks in Oman last month, where Washington conveyed a strong warning to Tehran that it would face serious consequences if it enriched uranium up to 90-percent purity, according to a report. Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council’s Middle East policy coordinator, and an Iranian delegation that included Ali Bagheri-Kani, Iran’s …

Iranwire – Authorities in Tehran have put up banners in the streets showing what officials described as the Islamic Republic’s first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile and with Arabic and Hebrew captions reading “400 seconds…to Tel Aviv.”  The banners appeared in the Iranian capital after commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new missile named Fattah, or …

Iranwire – The parents of Kian Pirfalak, a nine-year-old boy who was killed by Iranian security forces during protests last year, have filed a complaint against the “judiciary’s bailiffs” for the killing of their son. Security forces shot at the car carrying Kian Pirfalak in the southwestern city of Izeh on November 16, killing the boy and wounding his father, …

Iranwire – Iranian journalist Niloofar Hamidi vehemently rejected all the accusations against her as her trial kicked off behind closed doors on May 30, her husband says. Mohammad Hossein Ajorlo took to Twitter to say that Hamedi’s family was prevented from attending the hearing before Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, adding to concerns about transparency and due process. …

Al-Arabia – Fourteen members of a “terrorist team” linked to Israel have been arrested in northwestern Iran, an official from Iran’s Judiciary said on Monday according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. “14 members linked to Israel have been arrested as they were seeking to identify and assassinate various individuals,” Tasnim reported.