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Al-Monitor – Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a strongly worded statement of condemnation in response to a UN resolution that has raised alarm on human rights violations committed by the Islamic Republic. The resolution discussed and passed by the General Assembly Third Committee expressed “serious concern at the alarmingly frequent use of the death penalty.” It urged Iranian authorities to drop such sentences …

Al-Monitor – The United States sanctioned six Iranians and one Iranian cyber company on Thursday for attempting to sow discord ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, as the Department of Justice announced it had indicted two of the Iranians for their alleged involvement.  Between August and November 2020, a group of state-sponsored Iranian cyber actors obtained or attempted to …

Shabtabnews – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) finds it unexplainable that the U.S. Department of State did not redesignate Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) and treated it as a country with no severe religious freedom violations.“USCIRF is disappointed that the State Department did not adopt our recommendations in designating the countries that are the worst violators …

Hrana / Sens Daily (27.10.2021) – https://cutt.ly/RR8sztv- Mo`in Mithaaqi, Negaareh Qaaderi, Haayedeh Forutan and her son Mehran Mosallanezhad were freed on bail on October 26. The first two were arrested in Shiraz on September 22, and Mrs. Mosallaneszhad and her son on October 27. They were taken to Facility 201 — run by the city Police, rather than the Ministry of Intelligence — and held …

Al-Arabia – Israel has charged a member of Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s housekeeping staff with espionage, saying on Thursday he offered to spy on him on behalf of “a person identified with Iran,” the country’s arch-enemy. In a statement, the Shin Bet security service said the suspect corresponded with the unnamed person over social media. It said he provided photographs …