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Iran-HRM – The state security forces launch a plan to deal with those who eat or drink in public during the Ramadan fasting month in Iran. During the first days of Ramadan, the state-run media also publish numerous photos of police dealing with people eating, drinking, or smoking in public. Every year, many citizens are convicted of “breaking the fast” in sharia …

Iranhr.net – The Iranian authorities are violating the absolute prohibition of torture or other ill-treatment through the harassment of witnesses who testified at the “people’s tribunal” in relation the authorities’ deadly crackdown on the November 2019 nationwide protests, as well as their families, said 15 undersigned organizations. In response to public calls for truth, justice and reparation for crimes under …

Al-Monitor – The United States and Iran have never been closer to an agreement to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that he is “not overly optimistic” it will get done. But whether the parties to the agreement can reach a signing ceremony in Vienna may …

RFL/Re – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered the Intelligence Ministry to investigate a knife attack on three clergymen in the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad that left at least one dead. Raisi said on April 6 that the ministry should identify and prosecute all perpetrators of the incident, which took place the day before. Raisi …

RFL/RE – Three clerics were stabbed by an unknown attacker at a religious shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, killing two, media reported on April 5. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency said one of the clerics had died following the attack. Tasnim identified him as Mohammad Aslani. Meanwhile, the semiofficial Mehr news agency said a second clergyman, identified …