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Iranwire – Yesterday Ebrahim Raisi released a final, full list of his proposed new cabinet members to the Iranian parliament. In line with both political analysts’ forecasts and media speculation, alongside the names already announced this week were those of several relatively little-known figures with scant experience, as well as a hefty compliment of officials who last served in the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …

Iranwire – On the second day of the criminal trial of ex-Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri in Sweden, prosecutors painted a harrowing picture of how thousands of people were systematically sent to their deaths in the summer of 1988. Arrested in November 2019, Nouri is on trial for war crimes and murder over his alleged part in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners on the orders …

Iranwire – British diplomat Simon Shercliff was appointed as ambassador to Iran earlier this month. He  seemed to be off to a great start: he had already spent three years in Iran, from 2000 to 2003, all the time when reformist President Mohammad Khatami was in power. Things seemed more hopeful for the country in general, and Western diplomats had more wide-ranging …

Iranwire – Roozbeh Piri, a journalist and civil activist living in Tabriz, was fined this week for posting images to Instagram showing the effects of physical torture his brother had endured while detained by Iran’s paramilitary Basij. According to reports received by IranWire, Branch 12 of the East Azarbaijan Court of Appeals upheld a ruling of the Court of First Instance, sentencing Piri …

Iran Human Rights – Kurdish death row political prisoner, Heydar Ghorbani’s request for a retrial has been rejected by the Supreme Court and his case has instead been sent for implementation. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Branch 2 of the Supreme Court rejected Heydar Ghorbani’s request for a retrial according to Article 477 of the Code of …