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theguardian.com – A British- Iranian dual national sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran for co-operating with “a hostile state power” has smuggled himself out of Iran, escaping over the country’s treacherous mountainous border, and is now living in London. In an interview with the Guardian, Kameel Ahmady explained he felt had no option but to flee after spending …

VOA – A group of Iranian dissidents has urged U.S. President Joe Biden to support their demands for secular democracy and respect for human rights in Iran, issues on which Biden’s administration has been silent early in its term as it focuses on curbing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.  In an open letter to Biden dated February 1, written in English and shared with VOA Persian, …

Al-Arabia – Iran is responsible for the attempted bomb attack by a diplomat and several others at an event held by an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018, the civil party’s lawyer Rik Vanreusel told Al Arabiya. “There was a bomb planted, or almost planted, on a gathering of the opposition of the state of Iran. That the bomb was …

Iranwire – The following is the full text of IranWire’s new report on the story of Covid-19 in the Islamic Republic of Iran during 2020. Only the Trenches Have Changed draws on our own online coronavirus “chronology” published throughout the year, as well as expert analysis and interviews with public health practitioners from around the world. The report seeks to show the …

Iranwire – The founder of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, repeatedly claimed that the principle of Velayat-e Faqih in Iran’s constitution – the guardianship of an Islamic jurist as supreme leader, which underpins the Islamic Republic – would prevent autocracy. “Do not be afraid of Velayat-e Faqih,” he one said. “If a Faqih [Supreme Leader] wants to coerce then he …