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freebeacon – A group of more than 2,000 former high-ranking Israeli military, law enforcement, and intelligence community officials are warning the Biden administration against inking a new nuclear deal with Iran, saying the rush to negotiate with Iran directly endangers Israel and its newfound Arab allies. The letter, penned by Israel’s Defense & Security Forum, or Habithonistim, is the clearest sign …

theguardian.com – Iranian dissidents in Turkey are unsure whether the country is still a refuge after what appears to be a new wave of arrests and deportation orders targeting asylum seekers from the Islamic Republic. Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 31, a Kurdish political activist, faced torture and solitary confinement during seven years in prison in Iran before he managed to escape during a hospital visit and …

November 2020, Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat based in Vienna was charged with planning and organizing a bomb attack on a gathering of exiled dissident Iranians in Paris, in the summer of 2018. The gathering was organized by the National Council of Resistance (NCRI) the Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) and the meeting would be attended by some tens of …

VOA – A high-ranking general key to Iran’s security apparatus has died, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday.   Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi, who died at age 65, served as deputy commander of the Quds, or Jerusalem, force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. The unit is an elite and influential group that oversees foreign operations, and Hejazi …

Iran-HRM – Forced marriages in Iran are among the leading causes of the increase in suicide among women and girls. Forced and early marriages are common examples of violence against women. Teenage girls who were forced into marriage sometimes set themselves on fire in rural areas. Among other Iranian provinces, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Ilam have the highest suicide rates. Forced …