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iranintl – Amid Iran-backed Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, the head of the US military’s Central Command says Tehran is escaping accountability for its nefarious activities across the Middle East. “Iran is not paying a cost,” CENTCOM Commander Gen. Erik Kurilla told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. Repeated retaliatory strikes by US and UK forces …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has said elections have failed to bring “capable and deserving” officials into office. “Many perceive the current electoral methods as ineffective in bringing in capable and deserving leaders for the nation,” Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the southeastern city of Zahedan, said on March 8.  Zahedan is the capital of …

Iranwire – An Iranian Baluch fuel carrier was killed on March 7 after a chase with the border forces of the Islamic Republic in southeastern Zahedan.  Haalvsh news agency which covers news in the Baluch-dominated areas in Iran has identified the victim as Behzad Najafi.  Haalvhsh reported police forces chased Najafi’s vehicle which caught fire after being struck by gunfire. …

Iranwire – Border forces of the Islamic Republic in the western Kurdistan province have shot and seriously injured five kolbars amid an escalation of violence against the transborder porters.  Hengaw Human Rights Organization reported that the forces on March 6 directly fired at the kolbars near the border of Hengejal and threatened them with death before forcing them to call …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s so-called “elections” stand out as a grotesque parody of democracy. Yet… the mainstream Western media persistently mislabel these charades as “elections,” thereby bestowing legitimacy upon a regime entrenched in authoritarianism and dictatorship. For decades, Iranians have endured oppression, censorship, and violence at the hands of a regime that masquerades as a legitimate government while trampling on their …