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VOA – Candidates for Iran’s parliament began campaigning Thursday in the country’s first election since the bloody crackdown on the 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. State television said 15,200 candidates will compete for a four-year term in the 290-seat chamber that hardliners have controlled for two decades. That is a record …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Ending Hamas’s rule is very good for everyone, even for Hamas itself. It will prevent Hamas from tampering with the Gaza Strip and will put an end to the torture and killing of the people of Palestine. Overthrowing Hamas and ending its coup in Palestine is important for every Palestinian and Arab.” — Abdullah Ghanem al-Qahtani, Saudi social …

Iran-HRM – Shahab Nadali, a political prisoner from Hamedan, has been convicted and sentenced to execution by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, in a fabricated case on charges of “membership in opposition groups” and “connection with the Mojahedin and armed cooperation with them” accused of rebellion. (Bagh-y) Shahab Nadali is a …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday described Israel as a “cancerous tumor” destined for “destruction.” “The Islamic world will certainly witness the destruction of the Zionist cancerous tumor,” state news agency IRNA quoted Khamenei as saying. Iran does not recognize Israel and has made support for the Palestinian cause a fundamental component of its foreign policy since …

iranintl – A newspaper previously inked to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of murdering opposition figure Alexei Navalny. Simultaneously, at least two reports in the Iranian press have accused Putin and Russia of interfering in Iran’s internal affairs. The conservative Jomhouri Eslami newspaper, founded by Khamenei in 1979, charged in its February 20 …