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IRGC Claims it Thwarted US Oil Confiscation in the Gulf of Oman

Iranwire – Iranian state media has reported a confrontation between a US vessel and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Gulf of Oman. In a short dispatch on Wednesday, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency claimed the Iranian side had foiled attempted “piracy and theft of Iranian oil” by the US. Fars reported: “The United States confiscated a tanker carrying …

Iranwire – The Iranian hardline newspaper Javan, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has called the South Korean ambassador to Tehran “rancid” and claimed even his expulsion from Iran would not be sufficient punishment. The reason? His recent donation of 2,000 N-19 masks to a private hospital in Tehran. “The ambassador of a country that has taken …

Iranwire – Tens of thousands of rural villages across Iran don’t have adequate drinking water, the Minister of Energy has revealed. Announcing the creation of a “Water Jihad Council” on November 2, Ali Akbar Mehrabian said as many as 25,000 villages were suffering a water crisis. “We have 650 large sewage and water supply projects in the country that are under-funded,” he explained. Water shortages have prompted …

Iranwire – Cyber-activists behind an apparent hack of Evin Prison’s CCTV cameras that made global headlines in August have reportedly uncovered classified documents detailing Iranian prison officials’ response to the November 2019 protests. Documents sent to BBC Persian by the group, Edaalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice), dated mid-November to late December 2019, purportedly contain a set of confidential instructions for the Evin Prison superintendent. …

Iran-HRM – Iraq Alizadeh was tied to the bed despite dire health; his cuffs were not removed until several hours after his death Prisoner dies in a hospital in Urmia after his eye was removed Iraj Alizadeh died in a hospital in Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, on October 27 following several days of coma after undergoing an …

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Iranwire – The president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Mahmoud Aghamiri, announc…

Iranwire – Hemin Ahmadi, a 45-year-old Kurdish kolbar, was shot and killed by Iranian border f…

Iranwire – Another student has been summoned by the Evin Prosecutor’s Office for protest…

VOA – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by t…

VOA – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that efforts underway to norma…

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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Heyrati, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for…

iranintl – A Bushehr Teachers Union member, Reza Amanifar, was arrested as Iranian educators t…

iranintl – With an approaching run-off election to fill the final 32 parliamentary seats, and …

iranintl – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned about ‘normalization with Israel’ Wednesd…

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