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Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been returned to prison on the judiciary’s orders despite the state medical examiner’s advice that she is still contagious after contracting COVID-19 and would require another two weeks for treatment. Before returning to prison, Nasrin called the public’s attention to the imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali. According to Iran Human …

gatestoneinstitute.org – There is no gloating about death, but the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh…. was not the scientist who discovered the anti-coronavirus vaccine, but the scientist called the father of the Iranian nuclear bomb…” — Tareq Al-Hameed, Saudi author, Okaz, November 30, 2020. “[H]ow can they condemn the killing of a man who devoted his life to making a sinister bomb …

A leading human rights group said Thursday that an Iranian-Swedish scientist’s execution has been halted — at least for now. Ahmadreza Djalali’s planned execution is on hold for the “next few days,” a spokeswoman for Amnesty International told Al-Monitor. Djalali, an emergency medicine specialist, was arrested in Iran in 2016. He was charged with espionage, and later sentenced to death on the …

Al-Arabia – Iran on Thursday surpassed one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection, the health ministry said in the Middle East country hardest hit by the pandemic. The Islamic republic has recorded 1,003,494 coronavirus infections since announcing its first cases in February, ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on state television. For more on coronavirus, visit our dedicated section. The …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s mullahs love the nuclear deal because of its fundamental flaws, especially the sunset clauses that remove restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program after the deal expires soon. The nuclear deal, rather than preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as it was falsely touted to do, in fact paves the way for Tehran to become a legitimized nuclear state. With the …