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VOA – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iran to tread carefully in Iraq following a U.S. airstrike that destroyed parts of a compound used by Iranian-backed militias as they travel between Syria and Iraq. “You can’t act with impunity,” Biden told reporters in Houston, when asked what message he was trying to send Tehran by ordering the airstrike, …

Iran-HRM – Reports say that the internet has been disrupted in various cities in Sistan and Baluchestan Province following days of protests across the province over the killing of Baluch fuel traders. The internet was disrupted or completely shutdown since Wednesday afternoon in the cities of Chabahar, Iranshahr, Saravan, Zahedan and Zabol.Protests erupted on February 22, in Iran’s southeastern Sistan …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Khaled Pirzadeh, who had been on a hunger strike announced that he has sewn his lips together since Wednesday, February 24, to protest the authorities’ failure to address his demands. He has been on hunger strike since February 22 to protest being refused access to medical care. Political prisoner Khaled Pirzadeh also refused to take his …

CHRI – As the world marked International Mother Language Day in 2021, non-Persian native languages remained under attack in Iran, where non-Persian-speaking ethnic minorities are subject to state and institutional discrimination and the official teaching of mother languages is restricted and monitored by the Iranian government. “For years, the state has gone to great lengths to equate peaceful activities in …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Of three prisoners transferred to the gallows in Adel Abad Prison, one has been executed and two returned to their cells after obtaining last minute extensions in their case. They were all sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on February 23. The …