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articleeighteen – Three Christian converts were arrested last night in the northern city of Rasht, in the latest blow to the beleaguered Christian community there. Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh were arrested at around 10pm – two at a house-church meeting, and another at his home – and are now being held in an unknown location. The small …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces shot a man at point black on September 4 in Mehrshahr district in Karaj, west of Tehran. The young man has been identified as Morteza Jafari. In a video circulated on social media, a police officer shot an incapacitated man, who was forced on the ground, at point-blank range. The young man was shot …

Iran-HRM – political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health after 39 days of hunger strike in protest of the prosecutor’s rejection of his request for leave. A member of the political prisoner’s family told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that Ghader Mohammadzadeh is in dire health. He described that the court and the Yazd prison officials have accepted Mohammadzadeh’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner only named as Nouramad, who had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on September 5. He has only been named as 45-year-old Nourahmad, known as Keramat and had been sentenced to qisas for murder. Rokna reports that Nourahmad was …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Ghaani spoke to parliament during a closed session Tuesday about the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. According to Iranian parliamentarian Alireza Soleimani, Ghaani said Iran had a number of priorities in Afghanistan. The first was that Iran’s security in Afghanistan not be “compromised.” Ghaani said the US goal is to have Iran’s government involved in conflicts …