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Iranwire – With the Winter Olympics now in full swing, Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s minister of sports and youth, and Reza Saleh Amiri, president of the National Olympic Committee of Iran, travelled to Beijing in the hopes of meet with Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee. But for the second time in a year, the pair came back empty-handed. …

freebeacon – Biden administration Iran envoy Robert Malley is scheduled to brief House lawmakers for the first time in a classified setting on Tuesday following a pressure campaign from Republican foreign policy leaders, according to a copy of the hearing invitation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. This will be the first time Malley has appeared before Congress since he took …

Iranwire – Political and civil rights activist Hashem Amini has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, IranWire has learned. A member of the rapidly-growing “No to the Islamic Republic” campaign, Amini was jailed by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Torbat-e Heydarieh in Razavi Khorasan Province on Sunday February 6. He was officially convicted of “propaganda against the regime,” …

Iranwire – The verdict in a massive corruption case involving the Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company (PCC) was announced on September 5, 2021. But nearly three years after proceedings first got under way, the details remained shrouded in mystery. We were told at the time that 15 named defendants had been sentenced to a total of 180 years in prison, linked to the embezzlement of …

Iranwire – Mohammad Reza Bahonar, a long-serving former MP and principlist member of the Expediency Council, has once again proposed Iran form a senate or upper house of the Iranian parliament. The argument is that the Iranian MPs are focusing more on local issues than national direction and senators could fill that legislative void. Bahonar first called for this major …