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iranintl – A member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Relations Committee has said that the current “weak government” is the result of the presence of “a corrupt deviant group”. Morteza Mahmoudvand, a parliament member from Khorram Abad, informed reporters that most of Iran’s problems stem from this corrupt faction within the government. He pledged to substantiate this claim with …

iranintl – The European Union is set to remove ArvanCloud from its list of human rights sanctions, according to a source close to European diplomats. The firm was sanctioned in 2022 for its role in Iran’s Internet censorship. Following this action, ArvanCloud filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice and simultaneously pressured European governments through political channels to revoke this …

Iranwire – When the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 25-6 to establish the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran in November 2022, it was history in the making. Two months earlier, Mahsa Amini’s death in custody had sparked nationwide street protests and presented the starkest challenge yet to the Iranian government’s 43-year grip on power. Crowds were …

Iraniwre – The recent arrest of a Kurdish political refugee couple in Türkiye has sparked fears of their deportation to Iran, with human rights groups urging international intervention. Reshad Mohammadi, a Kurdish activist from Kamiyaran, and his wife, Azhin Fahmideh Hosseini, were arrested by Turkish police recently, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.  Their current location is unknown, …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic recently executed three individuals, including a woman, on drug-related charges amidst a surge in capital punishment in the country. On the morning of March 25, a 36-year-old man named Abbas Aghaei, from Tabriz, faced the death penalty at Tabriz Central Prison. His conviction stemmed from drug-related charges, as reported by the Norway-based Iran Human Rights …