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Iranwire- The following report is based on a series of testimonies collated by a citizen journalist in Iran from current inmates at Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj. Formerly known as Gohardasht, the facility was the site of the documented massacre of hundreds of political detainees in 1988, for which the ex-prison official Hamid Nouri was recently convicted in Sweden. Iran’s current president, …

Iranwire – The Baha’i International Community (BIC) today reported news of an effort to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production, filmed in a kindergarten, designed to produce proaganda footage that would show Baha’is teaching their religion in educational establishments. On 31 July, according to the latest BIC statement, and the same day that intelligence agents were invading …

Iranwire – The city of Urmia in West Azerbaijan province has become the latest to report chronic water supply problems after recent extreme weather in Iran. Earlier this week citizens of Shahrekord in Charmahal and Bakhtiari province protested outside the governor’s office after piped water was cut off for nine days straight. Local officials said a pipeline from the Koohrang spring had been temporarily …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was reportedly the second target of the Iranian regime. The IRGC member reportedly offered $1 million for his murder. The Biden administration remains silent and evidently continues to see “diplomacy” — read: appeasement — as the only path to deal with the Iranian regime. “I continue to believe, Biden said on …

Al-Monitor – The buzz is that the parties may be close to an agreement to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).  So close that Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid sent a message to the White House to walk away from the negotiations and avoid concessions above and beyond the original 2015 agreement.   On Aug. 8, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell clarified …