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Iranwire – A police officer told the Aban Tribunal he broke down in tears on a rooftop during the November 2019 protests, holding the Kalashnikov with which he had been instructed to shoot people. The final day of proceedings in London on Sunday saw a former senior IRGC official and two serving law enforcement officers testify to their own involvement in the bloody …

RFL/RE – The European Union says talks to revive a landmark nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran will resume in Vienna on February 8 as Tehran warned that the removal of U.S. sanctions was the “red line” to put the deal back on track. On February 7, the EU, which chairs the talks, announced the resumption of the negotiations, …

VOA — The alleged leader of the militant wing of a U.S.-based Iranian opposition group went on trial Sunday, state TV reported. He’s accused of planning a 2008 bombing at a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200. In 2020, Iran’s intelligence service detained Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German national and U.S. resident. Iran said he is the leader …

Iran-HRM – A protester who lost his sight after being shot during the November 2019 protests, committed suicide. Mohsen Mahmoudi Kariani, 28, was immidiately after being shot by pellet gun on November 16, 2019, when the state security forces violently repressed protests in Kermanshah, west Iran. Kariani who hanged himself nine months ago, was detained for months after being shot. …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime stepped-up repression by the soaring executions and widespread arrests of civil activists and protesters, on the one hand, and escalated pressure on prisoners, especially those incarcerated on political grounds. January saw the clerical regime ratchet up social clampdown in step with the growing discontent and the spread of popular protests. Arbitrary killings, violations of prisoners’ …