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AL-Arabia – A senior military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader who served as the country’s highest-ranking military official after the supreme leader for nearly three decades, has died “of an illness,” the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday, with other domestic outlets attributing his death to COVID-19. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via …

gatestoneinstitute.org – While the Biden administration and other members of the United Nations Security Council continue to push for the resuscitation of the disastrous nuclear deal — granting Iran nuclear weapons and global legitimacy — they have turned a blind eye to the mullahs’ ever-increasing violations of human rights. There are reports of slow public hangings-to-death on cranes, amputations of …

Iranwire – A billboard featuring Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been erected over a highway in Vienna. The Austrian website APA writes it was installed by “a group of doctors and medical staff defending human rights”. The poster is located on the A23 and the exit of the Landstrasse, near the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It comes …

Iranwire – “The party was in Anahita Hall, on the Kermanshah-Kamyaran highway. There were about 60 of us there. It was about 10 pm when several plainclothes officers stormed the hall and forced us to hand over our cellphones, camcorders, and even the birthday presents. Then they filmed all the guests. A man who called Haji began to divide up …

Iranwire – One in three Iranian marriages now end in divorce, according to analysis of official figures by Iran Open Data. In 2019/20 the number of officially-registered marriages increased by 4.4 percent to 556,731, but in the same year the divorce rate also jumped by 3.6 percent, with 183,193 Iranian couples separating in the space of 12 months. For every 100 marriages …