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Iran-HRM – The state security forces have paraded 34 young men in the streets to punish them for attending the Iranian fire festival which was heled on March 16, the state-run IRNA news agency reported today. The public degradation was carried out in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad with the presence of Judge Seyed Hadi Shariatyar, Deputy of Crime …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners in Arak Central Prison have been informed of being sentenced to death on charges of “insulting the prophet”. The two men were tried and convicted in a joint case. Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi revealed the verdict in the men’s case on her Instagram account. The men who are currently held in Arak …

Al-Monitor – The new deputy commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Israel on Thursday following a rare missile strike against the Jewish state that Israel blamed on the Syrian military.  Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh said, “The occupier Zionist regime should know that the resistance groups are stationed all over the planet next to their bases …

Al-Monitor – Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based advocacy organization, joined a growing chorus of Iranians to urge the release of veteran journalist and documentary filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad. “He is ailing and deprived from the right to treatment. His life is in danger,” read a post on the organization’s official Persian Twitter account. The statement accused Iranian authorities of “arbitrarily” imprisoning the …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released drone footage of a US aircraft carrier said to be in the Gulf and a clip of a “suicide drone test flight,” Press TV reported on Wednesday, at a time when the Vienna-based talks between world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal are underway. The IRGC “released strikingly precise and …