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Iranwire — Last week the Iranian Health Ministry announced that “aiding and abetting” abortions is now a crime and medical professionals acting as “accessories” to abortion will face heavy fines and disbarment for life. “If a doctor is involved in an intentional abortion his permit will be revoked, even if it is his first time,” announced Saber Jabberi, the ministry’s head of Youth Population …

Iranwire – After 13 years as head of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (the IRGC-IO), Hossein Taeb has been dismissed. His replacement is one General Mohammad Kazemi, who unlike his embattled predecessor has until now kept his name largely out of the news. Taeb made the headlines again the week before he was fired, this time …

Iranwire – A Kurdish political prisoner was returned to her cell hours after giving birth on Monday and without the chance to see her family, it has emerged. Saada Khedirzadeh, 32, from Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan, was arrested last October and held in a security detention center for 25 days before being transferred to Urmia Central Prison. The charges against …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Biden administration’s weak leadership — to hold accountable those who are violating Iran sanctions — is likely a critical reason the Iranian regime is flamboyantly ignoring the US and forging ahead — soon, most likely, to become a nuclear state. Presumably to take even further advantage of the Biden administration’s weak leadership, the Iranian regime is also …

VOA — European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was headed to Tehran on Friday night for a visit that could breathe new life into stalled talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Borrell was to meet with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials, said spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh of the foreign ministry. “Diplomacy is the only way to …