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RFL/RE – A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced a law professor to seven years in prison after convicting him of “cooperating with an enemy state.” The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on February 8 that Reza Eslami, a professor at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, had been also banned from teaching and leaving the country. The sentence, …

RFL/RE – Iran and North Korea resumed cooperation on the development of long-range missile projects last year, according to a UN report. “This resumed cooperation is said to have included the transfer of critical parts, with the most recent shipment associated with this relationship taking place in 2020,” an independent panel of experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea said …

RFL/RE – Iran has kicked off its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine. “The first person to receive the Russian Sputnik vaccine is my own child,” Health Minister Saeed Namaki said at a ceremony at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital, broadcast live on television on February 8. Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said that medical personnel treating COVIV-19 patients, …

Iranwire – The lead protagonists in this film are Kurdistan and the kolbars of Kurdistan. In one of Iran’s most remote, deprived and little-understood regions, every day hundreds of people – from 12-year-old boys to men in their 70s – strap up to 50 kilos’ worth of goods to their backs and set out on foot, singing, on the days-long …

Iranwire – Massoud Kordpour, a human rights activist and editor-in-chief of Mokrian News Agency, describes new IranWire documentary They Shoot Kulbars, Don’t They? as a short but clever account of the history of poverty, deprivation, and discrimination in Kurdistan. *** Massoud Kordpour lives in Iran and currently resides in Bukan, in West Azerbaijan province. The new documentary They Shoot Kolbars, Don’t They? reminded him, he tells …