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Iran-HRM – Yesterday the news website Tarafdari shared a video of a young Sepahan FC fan who stuck outside the gates of Isfahan’s Fouladshahr Stadium as a match between Sepahan and Zob-e Ahan kicked off inside. Swathed in the club’s black and yellow flag, the distraught interviewee said: “I really don’t see why this enmity has to continue. Why should we be …

Iranwire – In a new book set shortly to be published in Iran, Without Smoke and Fire and Blood, former president Hassan Rouhani provides an oral history of his eight-year presidency of the Islamic Republic. Already released parts of the book include an account of when, in 2019, while Rouhani was in New York to attend the US General Assembly, he came very …

August 2022 saw a spree of executions and the brutal suppression of civil liberties. At least 51 people were executed in August including a woman and two child offenders. Iranian authorities increased persecution of the Baha’i religious minority last month through raids, arbitrary arrests, home demolitions, and land grabs. These are a part of the issues covered in this monthly …

Al-Arabia – Forty years since Hezbollah was founded at the height of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the group has morphed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. The Iranian-armed and funded Hezbollah, which has marked the anniversary with ceremonies in its strongholds in recent weeks, dominates Lebanon’s politics and plays an …

Al-Arabia – Iran has not received the United States’ official response to its last proposal on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Monday. “Iran is waiting to receive the response from other parties, notably that of the American government,” he said during his weekly news conference in Tehran. His remarks come after the …