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Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has recently informed the family of political prisoner Mehran Gharabaghi in Behbahan that he had been sentenced to death. Mehran Gharabaghi, 29, a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, was arrested on January 18, 2020, along with a friend, Majid Khademi, 29, and transferred to Behbahan Prison after a month-long interrogation. The …

Iranwire – Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to another two and a half years in prison, 80 lashes and two fines for her peaceful defence of human rights in Iran. The activist was released from Zanjan Prison last October, where she had served four years of a planned 15-year sentence related to her work. Mohammadi’s health deteriorated behind bars and …

Reuters – Weary negotiators appear increasingly unlikely to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers before the Islamic Republic’s June presidential election, but an extension of talks could reap political gains at home for the supreme leader. The man who ultimately matters in the Iranian nuclear question, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would like the negotiations between …

Iranwire – On April 6, 2021, Sweden’s security police arrested a woman and a man known only as Salma K. and Fouad M. Salma and Fouad had come to Europe during the refugee crisis in 2015 and presented themselves as Afghan nationals, respectively aged 22 and 24. Six years on, they were charged with planning an act of terror on …

Iranwire – In an audio file sent to IranWire, a young man imprisoned over the November 2019 protests has described how he was interrogated and tortured at the Gisha Security Police detention center in Tehran. The 22-year-old was arrested at home a few months after the protests and is currently being held as a political prisoner in Greater Tehran Penitentiary. …