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tabletmag – The rule for watching the Israel-Lebanon frontier is that although nothing seems to be going on, something always is. Nothing seemed to be going on, for example, on one of the afternoons I recently spent along the electrified fence trying to sense the course of events this fraught summer, gazing out at a green blanket of shrubbery stretching …

Iranwire – A recent spate of killings of kolbars in western provinces of Iran has continued. This week yet another man earning a living by transporting goods across the Iran-Iraq border was shot dead by the Revolutionary Guards. According to Kurdish human rights sources, Mohammad Khalid Abdalahzadeh was killed on the evening of Sunday, September 5. Officers opened fire on him in …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoners Ahad Barzegar and Reza Roj’ati were abruptly moved out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary and relocated to Rajaiishahr Prison (Gohardasht) on Sunday morning, August 15, 2021. Prison authorities called them from their ward under the pretext of attending a court hearing. Later on, the authorities ordered the political prisoners’ cellmates to pack their belongings for transfer …

Al-Monitor – The Group of Seven (G7) largest advanced economies condemned on Friday what they concluded was an Iranian attack on an Israeli-linked vessel in the Arabian Sea last week.  Suspected Iranian drones struck the Liberian-flagged Mercer Street, a Japanese oil tanker that was traveling from Tanzania to the United Arab Emirates. The vessel is managed by the London-based Zodiac Maritime, …

RFL/RE – Four Iranian nationals have been charged in New York City with conspiring to kidnap a U.S.-based journalist who has written about the Iranian government’s human rights abuses, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on July 13.The suspects are an Iranian intelligence officer and three alleged members of an Iranian intelligence network who allegedly conspired to kidnap the journalist …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Shahin Mirkhani, a prisoner on death row for drug-related charges, has been executed in Shirvan Prison (North Khorasan). 38 people, including one woman, have so far been executed on drug-related charges in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Shirvan Prison on Sunday, June 6. His identity has …

Iranwire – Last summer Iran was rocked by around 20 explosions and other serious incidents at various petrochemical, oil, electricity and other industrial installations. As officials scrambled to mitigate both the physical and PR damage, speculation over the cause was rife. Some of the incidents were specifically attributed to Israel-sponsored sabotage. Others were blamed on opposition groups, through such methods …

RFL/RE – U.S. President Joe Biden has called Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 60 percent purity unhelpful but said the United States is “pleased” that Iran is still participating in indirect talks with Washington aimed at getting both countries back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.“We do not support and do not think it’s at all helpful that Iran …

VOA – U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley has indicated that recent attacks by Iranian proxies on U.S. forces in Iraq are making it tougher for the Biden administration to build domestic support for its new diplomatic initiative to resolve U.S.-Iran tensions. U.S. troops and bases in Iraq have come under rocket attack several times since last month, causing …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Maryam (Massoumeh) Karimi who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her husband, has been executed in Rasht Central Prison after the victim’s “next of kin” refused to forgive her or accept diya (blood money) instead of retribution. According to informed sources, as next of kin, “her daughter carried out the execution of her mother.” Iran …