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Amnesty – Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin prison since 24 November 2020, when he learned that his death sentence for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) was to be carried out imminently. In late December 2020, his family learned that Ahmadreza Djalali’s execution was halted for one month. He remains at risk of execution. View …

VOA – Far from potentially fading into obscurity, one of the world’s most feared jihadist terrorist organizations may be poised for a potential resurgence thanks to an unlikely ally.  Almost two decades after the United States first targeted al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan for carrying out the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the …

Iranwire – The children of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have engaged in a public war of words about US politics and the future direction of Iran. Firebrand activist Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani has been asked by her brother Mohsen to apologize for saying she had wanted Donald Trump to win the presidential election. She has now reiterated her position …

gatestoneinstitute.org – What, however, about Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who constantly tweets anti-Semitic and incendiary tweets and whose regime the US Department of State called “the world’s worst sponsor of terrorism”? Khamenei, in fact, has become so emboldened on Twitter that, on it, he publicly calls for annihilation of Israel and denies Holocaust. According to Twitter’s “Violent organizations …

RFL/RE – Iran’s military has launched short-range naval missile drills in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported, amid heightened tension between Tehran and Washington.State TV said on January 13 that the logistics warship Makran, described as Iran’s largest military vessel with a helicopter pad, and the missile-launching ship Zereh (armour) were taking part in the two-day exercises.Tensions between the …