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gatestoneinstitute.org – Despite this escalation [Iran supplying suicide drones to Russia], the European Union would not admit that the Iranian regime was entrenched in the war on Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wanted “proof”…. Iran’s regime, apparently even more emboldened, then began sending troops to Crimea to assist Russia in its attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population …

VOA —The United States on Friday denounced Iranian leaders for allegedly blocking the burial of a journalist’s body, saying the clerical state showed a fear of journalists even posthumously. <img src="https://gdb.voanews.com/013b0000-0aff-0242-3d92-08dab9847a48_w1023_r1_s.jpg" alt="Reza Haghighatnejad, Iranian Journalist | Photo by Mir Wais Rasuli, ماني, CC BY-SA 4.0 Reza Haghighatnejad, who worked in exile for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Radio Farda, a U.S.-funded …

VOA – Reporters Without Borders, widely known as RSF, the French abbreviation of its name, said Friday it has filed a complaint with the United Nations about the arbitrary arrests of journalists in Iran and the attacks on reporters’ “freedom to inform.” The crackdown on journalists has come as demonstrations have sprung up across Iran following the arrest of a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 253 people, including 34 children and 19 women, have been killed in the ongoing nationwide protests. Repeating its call for urgent international action, Iran Human Rights reiterates that the longer the necessary United Nations-led steps take, the more lives are endangered. Iran Human Rights Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “There are no excuses for …

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 …