Uncategorized

RFL/RE – Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on January 29, the Foreign Ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an “act of terrorism.” Police in Tehran have said they have arrested a suspect. Iranian authorities condemned the January 27 incident …

Iranwire – Iranian protesters took to the streets of Tehran and other cities across the country overnight, shouting slogans against the Islamic Republic, despite a ferocious crackdown on dissent that has killed hundreds of people. Footage shared on social media shows hundreds of residents of the capital’s Ekbatan neighborhood chanting slogans such as “Death to the dictator” and “Death to …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have reportedly moved the family of a 16-year-old girl who fell into a coma in November after allegedly being beaten by security officers to a place under their supervision. The Kurdpa news agency reported on January 17 that Hasti Hossein Panahi and her family were taken from their home in the village of Qoruchai to an …

Al-Arabia – An Iranian imam has blamed a lack of rainfall across the country on women not wearing hijabs following months of nationwide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police detention. Amini died in September following her arrest by the notorious Tehran morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab dress code for women– …

Iran-HRM – 35-year-old Javad Rouhi from Amol, north Iran, was arrested by security forces in Nowshahr. He was detained on September 22, 2022, for participating in nationwide protests. The Revolutionary Court of Sari sentenced him to death and his family is under pressure to keep silent.According to the order issued by the Sari Revolutionary Court, the pending charges against Javad …

Iranwire – The city of Nowshahr in the northern province of Mazandaran was the scene of a violent clash between armed security forces and anti-government protesters on September 21, 2022. Security forces gunned down at least four demonstrators that night and arrested hundreds over the following days. Three of those detained have since been handed capital punishment, including 18-year-old Arshia …

Iranwire – Prominent Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery says she has been sentenced to six years in prison as well as community work as part of her punishment for covering anti-government protests. In a video posted on Instagram on January 6, Moaiery appeared in an orange uniform cleaning a street with a sweep, saying she had been sentenced to work as …

Al-Monitor – The Iranian judiciary said Tuesday that 94 US citizens were among over 150 people allegedly involved in the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general who was hit in a January 2020 US airstrike in Baghdad.   At a televised weekly presser, the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary, Masoud Setayeshi, said legal proceedings have officially been launched and “summoning” letters have been …

RFL/RE – Two French nationals and one Belgian citizen have been arrested in Iran for alleged espionage and conspiracy against the country’s national security. The semiofficial ISNA student news agency on January 3 quoted Masoud Satayshi, a spokesman for the State Judiciary, as saying that investigations into the case were ongoing. He gave no further details. Iranian security forces have taken …

RFL/RE – A top Ukrainian presidential aide has called for the “liquidation” of Iranian factories making drones and missiles, as well as the arrest of their suppliers. Mykhaylo Podolyak said on December 24 that Iran “blatantly humiliates the institution of international sanctions,” before calling for the destruction of Iranian weapons factories in response. Kyiv has accused Tehran of supplying 1,700 …