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Iran-HRM – Branch 28 of Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request for a retrial by political prisoner Saba Kord Afshari’s lawyers. She received a 15-year prison sentence, which was first reduced in the Court of Appeals but then again added to her prison term in May 2020. Saba Kord Afshari was arrested on June 1, 2019 and was handed …

Iran-HRM – Seventy-one Iranian men and women were summoned to Behbahan’s Public and Revolution Court on November 7, for “investigations” into their participation in July protests. The 71 citizens must appear in court within the next 5 days in Behbahan, a city in the southeastern Khuzestan Province.The men and women were charged with “insulting the Supreme Leader, disrupting public order …

Al-Monitor – The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Iran, blacklisting six companies and four people accused of facilitating the procurement of sensitive goods for an Iranian military firm.  “The Iranian regime utilizes a global network of companies to advance its destabilizing military capabilities,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. “The United States will …

Payvandnews – “Sun Children“, directed by Majid Majidi, has been selected to represent Iran in the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards. Sun Children (2020)Khorshid (original title) Spokesman of Iranian Cinema Selection Committee Raed Faridzadeh said that after having reviewed 12 films shortlisted as the country’s preliminary nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, this committee finally decided to select ‘Sun Children’ as Iran’s …

gatestoneinstitute.org – At the beginning, U.S. President Donald J. Trump pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, which Iran never signed and which paves the way for Iran to have nuclear weapons. Tehran’s diminishing resources have also caused Iranian leaders to cut funds to the Palestinian terror group …