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Al-Arabia – Microsoft has announced that it detected and disabled cyberattacks over the last three months from a group based in Lebanon with ties to the Iranian government targeting over 20 organizations inside Israel and one intergovernmental organization in Lebanon. According to statement released on Thursday, the group named POLONIUM was working in coordination with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security “based …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The latest protests, however, appear to be different in a number of ways. First, the main theme, although not the immediately acknowledged one, is regime change. So far such a move had been stalled because the regime’s many opponents regarded it as their second choice, each being its own first choice. That meant that each group would rather …

Iran-HRM – World Environment Day is an opportunity to briefly review the environment in Iran which is devastated in the past four decades. The destruction of the environment in Iran has led to poverty and the destitution of a large portion of the populace. Deforestation, drying up major lakes, water shortages, soil erosion, and heavy air pollution in Tehran, Khuzestan, …

Iran-HRM – Poet and journalist Arash Ghaleh Golab has not been allowed to contact his family since he was arrested on May 26, during a protest over the recent collapse of a building in the Iranian port city of Abadan. Ghaleh Golab was violently arrested by security forces during a state crackdown on protests and remains in detention while suffering …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Behnam Khanjani and Farhad Ramezanian were executed on murder charges in Rasht Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Rasht Central Prison on June 2. Their identities have been established as Behnam Khanjani and Farhad Ramezanian who were both sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. Farhad Ramezanian was sentenced …