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gatestoneinstitute.org – More importantly, perhaps, does Putin’s Beijing pirouette represent a radical shift of Russia attitude towards China — something that could lead to the emergence of what Thomas Fichy and Jean-Marie Holzinger in their 2013 book, called “A New Mongol Empire” led by China with Russia as its bridgehead to Europe and Iran as its Trojan horse in the …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Khadijeh Medipour was beaten by several violent criminals and injured in the eye on Thursday. Iran’s Prisons Organization confirmed the news on Friday, February 11, saying that the reason for the “conflict” was “obscenity and insult” to Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the regime, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, and Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s …

Iranwire – Yair Geller, a Turkish-Israeli citizen, a prominent individual in the global defense industry, was the assassination target of Islamic Republic agents who were apprehended earlier this week in Turkey. The Turkish newspaper Sabah said that the planned killing of the 75-year-old owner of CNC Advanced Technology and Engineering, which manufactures aerospace hardware, IT equipment, CNC machinery, and develops …

Iranwire – Ayatollah Khamenei has lashed out at independent media, identifying it and journalists as clear targets in his “combined offensive” against threats to Iran’s economy, society and security. “The clear policy of the media opposed to Islam and Iran is to distort the facts and use lies to distort the positive points of the revolution,” he told a group of …

HRW – Headlines about the beheading of 17-year-old Ghazaleh (Mona) Heydari shook Iranian society on Saturday. The police have arrested the victim’s husband and brother-in-law and stated that the motive was a “family dispute.” Heydari, who lived in Khuzestan province, was reportedly married off to her cousin at the age of 12 and had a three-year-old child. A source close to the victim reported that Heydari had attempted …