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Prisoner Habib Rezaei Executed in Salmas

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Death row prisoner Habib Rezaei who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Salmas Prison. His mother suffered a heart attack and passed away when his sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court seven months ago. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Salmas Prison on …

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Prosecution Requests Death Penalty for Man Arrested for Alcohol Consumption

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – The prosecution has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man arrested on alcohol consumption charges for the fourth time. According to Iran newspaper, a representative from the prosecutor has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man who was arrested for drinking alcohol earlier this year after a complaint from a neighbour. The man, …

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Virus outpaces Iran’s sluggish vaccination effort

Al-Monitor – Iran’s health officials said multiple variants of the COVID-19 virus are raging across four southern provinces up to 50% faster than two weeks ago. The rates have now placed much of the country’s impoverished southern and southeastern strip in the country’s “red” infection zone. Iran’s health minister has already warned that the “stubborn” nature of Indian and South African mutations identified in …

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Websites for PressTV, Two Other Media Outlets ‘Seized by US Government’

sputniknews – The US Department of Justice has seized Iranian domains before, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign,” and US-based social media corporations like Twitter and Google have persecuted Iranian news outlets for years, but the wholesale seizure of a major Iranian news agency’s website is new. Two of the websites, Al-Alam and PressTV, are owned by Islamic Republic …

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Meet ‘The Butcher,’ Iran’s New President Ebrahim Raisi

tabletmag.com – As the Biden administration gives every indication of removing most sanctions on the world’s top state sponsor of terror in pursuit of its nuclear deal, that regime has produced a new president personally culpable—and sanctioned by the United States—for large-scale crimes against humanity. As the handpicked sixty-year-old Ebrahim Raisi is also likely to succeed the ailing Ali Khamenei …

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