Shabtabnews In this dark night, I have lost my way – Arise from a corner, oh you the star of guidance.

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Faraji who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man executed in Isfahan Central Prison on 31 May 2022. His identity has been established as Mehdi Faraji who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Mehdi …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Akbar Hassanlou who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man executed in Zanjan Central Prison on 29 May 2022. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Akbar Hassanlou from Hashtroud who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source told Iran …

Al-Arabia – A senior cleric and representative of Iran’s supreme leader was unharmed after being attacked in central Iran on Friday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. A man tried to attack Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad after Friday prayers in the central city of Isfahan but “failed due to the intervention of the bodyguards” of the senior cleric, Tasnim reported. “After …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday said that the country’s seizure of two Greek oil tankers late last month was a retaliation against Greece because it “stole” Iranian oil. The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) boarded and took control of the two vessels in the Gulf on May 27, citing “violations,” which Greece condemned as “tantamount to acts of piracy.” The …

RFL/RE – The killing of a senior officer in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in broad daylight in the capital, Tehran, is rare. But the deaths of two senior members of the IRGC, the elite branch of Iran’s armed forces, inside the Islamic republic in the space of two weeks is unprecedented and has raised eyebrows. Iran’s official government …