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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Prominent human rights defender, Narges Mohammadi who was arrested at the ceremony of slain November 2019 protesters yesterday, has been informed in solitary confinement that her 30 month imprisonment and 80 lashes sentence will be enforced. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, in a phone call to her family from prison, Narges Mohammadi …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Whistleblower Farhad Salmanpour is facing new fabricated charges after speaking out about the suspicious death of Shahin Naseri in custody. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Farhad Salmanpour who is held in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, is facing new fabricated charges by the Fashafuyeh Revolutionary Court after exposing details of Shahin Naseri’s suspicious …

thedispatch – Personnel is policy, even in nuclear weapons programs that purport not to exist.  On November 13, Iranian media outlets revealed the name of the new director of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, an entity known by its Persian-language acronym, “SPND.” Created in 2011 to support Tehran’s restructured nuclear weapons quest, SPND was led by Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, the Islamic Republic’s foremost military-nuclear scientist, from its …

Al-Monitor – Hackers “associated with the government of Iran” are actively targeting a wide range of US sectors, including with ransomware, a cybersecurity advisory issued by US, British and Australian governments said Wednesday.  The joint alert from the US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Center and the UK’s National Cyber Security Center said the hackers were targeting …

Al-Monitor – According to Iranian news agencies, 35 members of Iran’s parliament requested that the country’s Justice Minister “address violations by the former president,” Hassan Rouhani.  The request was put forward by Mohammad Nabavian, a conservative politician who opposed the nuclear negotiations and a former student of hardline cleric Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi. The article did not detail which “violations” the …