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RFL/RE – Genies, sorcerers, and exorcists are back in the Iranian political debate a decade after then-President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s associates were accused of practicing witchcraft and summoning supernatural creatures, claims that he denied. The debate about the alleged influence of sorcerers and clairvoyants on state officials was renewed this week when a member of the powerful Expediency Council — a …

Iranwire – One of Iran’s leading health experts has warned against the Russian vaccine for coronavirus, which Iran is due to receive in a matter of days. Iranian government officials announced that the first shipment of the vaccine will be imported to Iran before February 11. But Minoo Mohrez, a leading member of the Coronavirus Taskforce’s scientific committee, has said she …

iranwire – Health workers are the front line in our defense against the coronavirus pandemic – including hundreds of Iranian Baha’i doctors and nurses. But they are not in Iran; instead, they live in countries around the world, treating their patients, where they are admired and praised by the people and governments of the countries where they live. The one country …

Iranwire -From the Tehran highway to the airport at Ecuador, then on to Peru and Brazil in the clutches of a people-smuggler, and finally thrown to a protracted and unjust detention. The tumultuous recent experience of Mahnaz Alizadeh, camerawoman for a recently-released documentary about the life and times of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, may someday be worthy of a …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Mohammad Ashtiani was about to get suffocated in the absence of medical treatment.   Low oxygen levels in the blood of political prisoner Mohammad Ashtiani was leading to his suffocation due to lack of medical treatment. Despite the low oxygen level in his blood, prison authorities refrained from providing him medical care and taking him to …