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Iran Human Rights (IHR) –   Juvenile convict Hassan Rezaei has been executed at Rasht Central Prison. Iran Human Rights condemns his execution in the strongest terms. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, IHR director said: “The international community and European states in particular, must respond to this execution appropriately. Tens of other juvenile convicts are currently on death row in Iranian prisons, the …

Iranwire.com – Between October 22 and 28, 2020, an independent poll conducted for IranWire by Stasis pollsters returned some unexpected results. One was that close to 37 percent of respondents said if they do participate in the June 2021 Iranian presidential election, at the moment they would vote for former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Other figures whose names have recently surfaced in the …

Iranwire.com – Three days ago, a senior Hamas official revealed that he had been gifted some 22 million dollars, in cash and stuffed into suitcases at Tehran airport, by none other than Iran’s own General Ghasem Soleimani. The extensive generosities of the late commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force have been reported on in the past. But as ever, the sources of …

RFL/RE – The United States has reportedly flown two B-52 bombers over the Persian Gulf in the third such show of force in recent months, presumably meant to deter Iran from attacking U.S. or allied targets in the region. The U.S. bombers carried out a round-trip, 30-hour mission from Minot Air Force Base, in North Dakota, to the Middle East …

RFL/RE – Iran says it has allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was downed in Iranian airspace nearly a year ago. The Iranian government said in statement on December 30 that it had approved the payment of “$150,000 or the equivalent in euros as soon as possible to the …