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Iran-HRM – Iran’s security forces have shot and killed an Iranian Kurdish man on February 8. The state forces shot and killed 37-year-old Behzad Hashemi on suspicion of carrying smuggled goods. He was married and father to three children. According to an informed source, the state security forces opened fire on his car in the northwest city of Salmas, West Azerbaijan …

Iran-HRM – An appeals court in Iran has sentenced eight Iranian Baha’i men and women to a total of 14 years in prison for for practicing their faith. The eight Iranian Baha’i men and women were identified as Arash Rasekhi, Nasim Qanavatian, Maral Rasti, Mahnaz Jan Nesar, Omid Afaghi, Mehroallah Afshar, Adeeb Hagh Pejve and Farhad Amri. They were previously …

Al-Monitor – US President Joe Biden delivered his first foreign policy speech Feb. 4. His address worried Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for two reasons. The first was what Biden said, and the second was what Biden did not say. Biden repeated in his speech the need for America to repair its alliances and engage again with the world. In an …

Al-Arabia – Iran is closer than it has previously been to having the ability to produce material needed for a nuclear weapon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday. The top US diplomat criticized the decision by former President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal, as the reason for …

gatestoneinstitute – “[T]he Islamic Republic Theocracy is on the verge of collapse”. — Letter from 38 Iran-based dissidents to the Biden administration, February 1, 2021. “The moment Biden joins the nuclear deal and unblocks the money for the Islamic Republic, the regime will once again dish out money even to Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda, but Iranians will keep remaining in …