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Iranwire – Medics joined university students, schoolchildren and teachers across Iran and went on strike on Sunday, October 23, as nationwide anti-government protests entered a 37th day. Iran’s judiciary has banned three teachers’ rights activists from leaving the country, sentencing them to five years in prison. Jafar Ebrahimi, Rasoul Badaghi and Mohammad Habibi were charged with “gathering and colluding with …

VOA – A Spanish man trekking from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has not been heard from since the day after he crossed into Iran three weeks ago, his family said Monday, stirring fears about his fate in a country convulsed by mass unrest. The experienced trekker, former paratrooper and fervent soccer fan, 41-year-old Santiago Sanchez, …

VOA – One month after Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran following a cyberattack, Albania’s prime minister arrived Sunday in Israel for a three-day visit that includes meeting with Israeli cyber defense officials. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said he and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama discussed common challenges facing the two countries, “with an emphasis on …

Al-Monitor – Nearly a month on, horrifying details continue to trickle out from the killing of scores of civilians in Iran’s southeastern city of Zahedan — the capital of Sistan-Balouchistan province and home to the ethnic Balouch community who are followers of Sunni Islam — under the Shiite-led central government.   The killings occurred on Sept. 30, a day described by …

iran-hrm – This human rights tragedy does not only concern the number of arrests but the systematic use of torture against the detainees. Iran’s Intelligent Forces have imposed extensive use of torture on these citizens while in detention. With the start of protests in Iran, responding to the death of Mahsa Amini who was killed in police custody, thousands of …