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gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he Biden administration, even during the Iranian regime’s current brutal crackdown on its own citizens, and the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, are still seeking to revive the lethal “nuclear deal” — allowing the regime to enrich uranium to acquire an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them — and reassuring the mullahs …

Iran-HRM – Some 60 percent of arrestees in Qom are between 15 and 22 The Commander of the State Security Force of Qom Province acknowledged at a news conference that the age of 60 percent of those detained during protests in Qom is between 15 and 22 years old. These statistics only relate to the city of Qom. More than …

oversightboard – User appeal to restore content to Facebook. In July 2022, a Facebook user posted content in a public group that describes itself as supporting freedom for Iran. The post contains an image depicting a caricature of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the image, Ayatollah Khamenei’s beard forms a fist, which grasps a woman wearing the hijab. …

CHRI – At least three lawyers were among dozens of individuals who were arrested today outside the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran amid anti-state protests that continued in the capital and several cities throughout the nation, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has been informed. “Lawyers willing to defend detainees arrested for peaceful protest are the last lifeline …

CHRI – A union representing oil workers in Iran has published a statement condemning Iranian authorities for arbitrarily arresting their colleagues who have joined the nationwide, anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September 16, 2022. Protests by large numbers of oil and petrochemical project workers began in the towns of Asalouyeh, Bushehr Province, as well as in Abadan, …