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Al-Monitor – The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned an Iran-based foundation that maintains a multimillion-dollar bounty on Salman Rushdie, the British-American author attacked on stage in New York in August. In 1989, then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in his acclaimed novel “The Satanic Verses.” The …

Al-Arabia – The UN human rights office on Friday voiced concern about Iran’s treatment of detained protesters and said that authorities were refusing to release some of the bodies of those killed. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last month has ignited protests in one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution. Rights groups …

Al-Arabia – Anti-government protests resumed in the Iranian city of Zahedan on Friday with demonstrators chanting against Iran’s supreme leader as the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody continued across Iran. Videos posted on social media by the activist group 1500tasvir showed protesters chanting “death to Khamenei” in reference to Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader …

RFL/RE – Mohammad Nayeb-Zehi was among the hundreds of worshippers who gathered on September 30 at the Great Mosalla, a religious site in Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan, for Friday Prayers. Just hours later, the 16-year-old’s family learned he was dead. Nayeb-Zehi was among the scores of people gunned down by security forces in a brutal crackdown following anti-government protests …

RFL/RE – Permanent workers in Iran’s oil industry say they will join a strike announced by contract oil workers and will stop work on October 29 to protest the government’s crackdown on a wave of nationwide demonstrations following last month’s death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested for not wearing her hijab “properly.” The announced strike of petrochemical industry …