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Al-Arabia – Germany must act immediately to prevent the hanging of a national detained in Iran who risks the death penalty on charges vehemently denied by his supporters, his family and activists said on Monday. Anti-regime activist Jamshid Sharmahd, 66, appeared in court in Tehran earlier this month charged with “spreading corruption on earth” over accusations of involvement in a bombing at …

Iranwire – The Omicron outbreak is still ongoing in Iran. Health officials now say that for the time being, any and all cold symptoms must be treated as suspected Covid-19. But they face resistance from large swathes of the Iranian population desperate to return to normal life, in many cases for financial reasons. Meanwhile, President Ebrahim Raisi called on people …

Iranwire – More than a month has passed since three Kurdish kolbars from the village of Bavan Silvaneh, in the border rural district of Margavar, West Azerbaijan province, disappeared without a trace. Efforts by locals to find them have yielded no clue. The three were lost on their return from the Turkish border, walking on treacherous, winding mountain paths through a heavy …

Al-Arabia – Iraq is $1.6 billion in arrears on its payments for imports of Iranian gas, its acting electricity minister has said, urging Washington to allow cash payments despite its Tehran sanctions. Despite its immense oil and gas reserves, Iraq remains dependent on imports to meet its energy needs, and neighboring Iran currently supplies a third of its gas and …

RFL/RE – Mehrshad Soheili has collected a number of plaudits from the Iranian media in the past few years. The 17-year-old has been dubbed the Islamic republic’s “youngest commander” and a “teenage jihadist.” He has been lauded, as the purported head of the registered Imam Mehdi Garrison, as the hidden imam. And as president of the Imam Sadegh Institute, his …