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Shabtabnews – US state department in its annual Report on International Religious Freedom in Iran, once again highlighted Iranian Regime’s oppression of religious minorities especially towards the Bahai’s, Sufis and other religious minorities group. The report also highlighted The U.S. government continued call publicly and in multilateral forums for the Iranian government to respect religious freedom and continued to condemn …

Al-Arabia – The US will join European powers to submit a resolution calling on Iran to “fully cooperate” with the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a State Department official said Thursday. “We can confirm that we plan to join the UK, France and Germany in seeking a resolution to focus on the need for Iran to fully cooperate with the IAEA,” …

RFL/RE – Scores of Iranian filmmakers and artists who penned an open letter in support of anti-government protesters have been threatened by authorities, with some rescinding their signatures. The May 29 open letter came as residents of Iran’s southwestern city of Abadan staged rallies over the collapse of a 10-story building that killed at least 39 people.Authorities blamed the May …

RFL/RE – Tehran has threatened to punish Iranians who worked on the film Holy Spider, a movie inspired by the true story of an Iranian construction worker who killed 16 sex workers as part of an “Islamic cleansing of society.” Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Mehdi Ismaili said on June 2 that the film, directed by Danish-Iranian …

RFL/RE – The Writers’ Association of Iran and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed concern over the arrest of poet and journalist Arash Ghaleh-Golab during a protest over the recent collapse of a building in the Iranian port city of Abadan that left at least 39 people dead. According to a statement from the Writers’ Association, Ghaleh-Golab was …