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RFL/RE – The UN nuclear watchdog said on February 23 that it is “deeply concerned” that Iran secretly kept “undeclared nuclear material” at an “undeclared location” as the agency warned that Tehran continued to exceed “many limits” set by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also confirmed in a pair of reports that …

Iranwire – Pictures published on social media, which have since been confirmed by local sources, show that today, Tuesday, February 23, protesters in Saravan in Sistan and Baluchistan broke into the governor’s office and took control of the building. Since yesterday, images of the bloodied seats of burning cars, and videos depicting the sound of gunshots and a police car …

Iranwire – Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist, has been sentenced to five years in prison and a two-year internet ban for wishing happy birthday to a fellow jailed student. The sentence was handed down to Hosseinzadeh Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. Amir Raeisian, her lawyer, announced the news on his Twitter page, saying the Tehran University scholar had been …

Iranwire – More than 60,000 Iranian males aged 10 to 18 are married, according to population studies recently cited in Iranian media. On Wednesday, February 24, the demographer Shahla Kazemipour told ISNA news agencythat according to the 2016 census, “about 1.2 percent of 10- to 14-year-old boys, 2.3 percent of 15- to 19-year-old boys, and  about 2 percent of 10-18-year-old boys – …

Iranwire – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s most incendiary remarks concerning speakers of the Iranian parliament always seem to fall on a Sunday. Back on February 3, 2013, on a day some principlists later referred to as Black Sunday, the then-president used an open session of parliament to play a video clip of a meeting involving Fazel Larijani, the brother of then-speaker of parliament Ali …