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Iranwire – Friday, February 11, is the 43rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The Iranian government has staged tens of abductions, forced disappearances and assassinations of its opponents in other countries around the world. The Islamic Republic has always denied that it carries out trans-national attacks – but this position is undermined by both the frequency of the …

Iranwire – A spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s Budget Reconciliation Committee announced that two trillion tomans (over $477 million) has been allocated to complete unfinished prayer houses, and that the Khatam-al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, an affiliate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), can receive this amount in the form of crude oil any time it wishes. According to the spokesman, …

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Habibi, a spokesman for the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), said that Ministry of Education has issued some directives aimed at “terrorizing” teachers and preventing them from attending protest rallies. On his Twitter account Habibi published the pictures of two directives recently issued by the Ministry of Education. بخشنامه هایی برای ایجاد رعب و وحشت در میان …

CHRI – Mona “Ghazal” Heydari was 17 years old when her husband, Sajjad Heydari, decapitated her and paraded her head on a street in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province—at times smiling at a camera. “Now do you have anything more to say?” he said while carrying the girl’s severed head in his hand by her hair in a …

Al-Monitor – “The precise, radar-evading and pinpointing missile is capable of dealing maximum blows on the Zionist regime in any potential confrontation,” read an editorial in hard-line newspaper Khorasan Feb. 10. The piece outlined the features of the “Kheybar-Shekan,” a new long-range missile unveiled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday. The Persian name for the missile means “the smasher of Kheybar,” …