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RFL/RE – Iran’s Al-Alam television said an oil tanker that was reportedly attacked on April 24 near Baniyas in Syria was one of three Iranian tankers that arrived recently at the oil terminal. Syria’s Oil Ministry said earlier that a fire broke out on an oil tanker off the Syrian coastal city of Baniyas following what is believed to be …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on April 24 that they had dismantled a “terrorist” cell linked to the Islamic republic’s enemies and killed three of its members in the country’s southeast. The IRGC mounted a “successful operation” in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province and ambushed the “terrorist cell linked to the global arrogance,” an IRGC statement published …

Iran-HRM – Images recently posted on social media show several new graves being dug over the mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery where the authorities had buried political prisoners executed in 1988 massacre. At least two people have been buried in these graves in recent days in this area. At least 10 new graves have been dug in the Khavaran Cemetery, …

Iran-HRM – A court in northern Iran has sentenced two student activists to a total of 72 lashes. The Shahroud Criminal Court has sentenced 25-year-old Milad Nazeri and 26-year-old Seyed Shabir Hosseini Nik to a total of 72 lashes for their social media posts. The two activists are students at Shahroud University of Technology Central Campus in northern Iran. According …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) welcomes President Joseph R. Biden’s historic decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide on the somber occasion of its 106th anniversary. Beginning in 1915, the Ottoman Empire embarked on a systematic campaign to deport and kill over one million Armenians over the course of the ensuing years. The Biden administration’s recognition of the …