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Swedish Iranian Brothers Charged in Fresh European Espionage Case

Iranwire – On September 23, 2021, the National Security Unit of the Swedish Public Prosecutor’s Office, submitted a request for the arrest of an Iranian-Swedish citizen to a judge in Stockholm. The accused was Peyman Kia, now 41 years old and a former head of Swedish security police. The charge was “gross and unlawful abuse of position and access to …

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Iran nuclear programme: Threat of Israeli strike grows

BBC – In the turquoise waters of the Red Sea, Israeli, Emirati and Bahraini naval forces for the first time just days ago rehearsed joint security operations with a US warship. It followed a war-game at a desert airbase just north of the Israeli port city of Eilat last month, which sent fighter planes from Israel and seven other countries …

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Political prisoners on hunger strike in Sanandaj and Urmia prisons

Iran-HRM – Two political prisoners are on hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia and the Prison of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province. The political prisoners on hunger strike are Shaker Behrouz and Houshmand Alipour. Shaker Behrouz in on the death row. He went on hunger strike on November 21, 2021, in protest of the intelligence services’ pressure …

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Iran: Unjustly detained students harshly beaten: Ali Younesi & Amirhossein Moradi

Amnesty – Iranian university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, arbitrarily detained without trial in section 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison since 10 April 2020, are at risk of being convicted in a grossly unfair trial of a spurious charge that carries the death penalty. Ministry of intelligence agents beat them and held them in prolonged solitary confinement in harsh …

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Water protests spread in Iran

Al-Monitor – Just days after thousands of Iranians took to the streets in Isfahan to protest water policies and the government’s inability to address the water shortages, Iranians in an adjacent province took the streets over the same cause. For back-to-back days, hundreds of residents of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province gathered in the provincial capital Khahrekord to protest water scarcity. …

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