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Iranwire – The water volume of Iran’s under-threat Lake Urmia has shrunk by 40 percent year on year, a senior local official told IRNA news agency. Hojat Jabbari, technical deputy director of the Department of Environment for West Azerbaijan province, told reporters that the water level across Lake Urmia had also dropped by 100 centimeters compared to this time last …

Iranwire – On August 25, on a day in Iran when the price of the US dollar broke the dreaded 28,000-toman ceiling, both President Ebrahim Raisi and his new First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber described an “opening” – by which they meant a positive development – in the currency situation. “There has been a serious opening in currency prices and you will …

VOA – Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country’s notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees at the facility leaked out last week. The judiciary’s three-day investigation into mistreatment and grim conditions at Tehran’s Evin prison had landed “some” prison guards in detention, said judiciary spokesman Zabihollah …

Iran-HRM – Jailed protester Hossein Hashemi was summoned to Tehran’s Fashafuyeh Public Court for “publishing lies” following the publication of a letter he wrote about dire conditions in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. He was detained for taking part in Iran’s November 2019 protests. Hashemi has been ordered to present himself to court within seven days. The new case has been …

Iran-HRM – Life of political prisoner Javad Hosseini Nejad in danger in a psychiatric ward Political prisoner Javad Hosseini Nejad was not allowed a last visit with his mother and sister The news from Vakilabad prison in Mashhad indicates the transfer of political prisoner Javad Hosseini Nejad to a ward for the mentally ill where his life is in danger. …