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RFL/RE – Thousands of people gathered in Baghdad on January 4 for a funeral procession for a senior Iranian military commander and several others killed one day earlier by a U.S. air strike in the Iraqi capital that has escalated already heightened tensions in the region and Iran warned has “started a military war.” Many of the participants waved Iraqi …

Radiofarda – Since Wednesday evening social media users in Iran have posted videos of the heavy presence of security forces and riot police in many cities and townships in anticipation of a new round of protests. Videos posted on social media show heavy presence of security forces and riot police in full gear in Tehran and the townships around the …

Iran-HRM – Heavy police presence reported in several Iranian cities while internet networks have been disconnected since early Wednesday. December 25, 2019FacebookTwitterEmail The Iranian regime is getting ready to prevent any protests that might erupt during gatherings scheduled for December 26. Heavy police presence reported in several Iranian cities while internet networks have been disconnected since early Wednesday. Problems in accessing proxy …

Radiofarda – The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has strongly denounced the arrest of parents of a young protester shot dead by security forces in Iran’s November protests. Pouya Bakhtiari, 27, died of a bullet wound to the head in his mother’s arms on November 16 in the Mehrshahr district of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran. His parents …

WASHINGTON — The United States is implementing additional restrictive measures on Iran for what it says are ongoing human rights abuses, following a deadly crackdown last month on protesters in Tehran and more than 100 other cities and towns.At a panel discussion on the topic in Washington that he hosted, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on December 19 …

RFL/RE — European lawmakers have passed a resolution denouncing the “widespread and disproportionate” use of force by Iranian security forces against nonviolent protesters. The nonbinding resolution adopted on December 19 demands that all protesters, human rights defenders, and journalists currently held behind bars “for exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of expression and assembly” be released unconditionally.Iran is facing international …

Iran-HRM – According to the latest reports at least 1,500 protesters have been killed during a three-day crackdown against November Iran protests in different provinces. At least 400 have been killed in Tehran, 320 in Kermanshah, 270 in Fars, 240 in Khuzestan, 120 in Isfahan, and 100 in Alborz (Karaj). According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of bodies were taken to Namazi hospital …

Radiofarda – Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani has claimed that “85 percent of protesters shot to death in the Tehran County during the mid-November anti-government protest had nothing to do with protest gatherings.” Shamkhani, who according to the Iranian administration’s spokesperson Ali Rabiei, has prevented the releasing of the protest casualty toll, however, claimed that the victims have “shot each …

CHRI – Detainees Punished for Complaining That They Were Forced to Make False Statements, Says Lawyer Iranian authorities are refusing to transfer imprisoned conservationist Sam Rajabi to the hospital to treat a serious medical condition, and are continuing to hold three of his colleagues in solitary confinement without legal justification, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “It appears …

Radiofarda – People of Iran are tired of wasting their national wealth in proxy wars, the U.S. State Department Representative for Iran, Brian Hook said on Tuesday, December 10. Speaking at a Town Hall meeting at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington D.C., Hook insisted that the Maximum Pressure Campaign on Iran (MPCI) corresponds with what people …