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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Cousins Ali Mohammad Mohammadi and Eslam Mohammadi who were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “murder during a tribal clash” have been executed in Ahvaz Sepidar Prison. Ali Mohammad’s mother died of a heart attack following her son’s execution. Their four co-defendants remain at risk of execution. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Baluch prisoner Nazarnaz Ghanbarzehi who was on death row for drug-related charges has been executed in Zahedan Central Prison. At least 94 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on the morning …

RFL/RE – The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says his monitoring program in Iran has been restricted at a key facility, raising concern that it will not be possible for world powers that are party to a 2015 nuclear deal to “reconstruct the picture” of Iran’s nuclear program down the road.International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi made …

gatestoneinstitute.org – What is planned isn’t the actual writing of a new constitution but “drafting” unspecified “reforms” to a non-existent constitution. If this sounds like diplomatic gesticulation, don’t be surprised because it is exactly that. Syria today isn’t a constitutional problem. [W]hat is still lacking is a clear American strategy for reviving Syria as a nation-state, the only outcome that …

RFL/RE – The new governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province was assaulted during his inauguration ceremony by a man who rushed the stage and slapped him. The new governor, General Abedin Khorram, had just approached the podium on October 23 in the city of Tabriz when an unidentified man strode onto the stage and struck him without warning. Footage of …