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Al-Arabia – Iran’s troubled currency rose to a six-week high against the US dollar on Saturday, helped by central bank cash injections and hopes of reduced US sanctions after a possible presidential election victory by Joe Biden.The dollar was selling for about 268,000 rials on the unofficial market, down from 281,000 on Friday, according to foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. The …

Iran-wire – Earlier this month, one of Iran’s most notorious puppet judges quietly passed away after contracting Covid-19. News surfaced that Hassan Zare Dehnavi, better known as Judge Haddad, had died on Wednesday, October 28. It prompted an outpouring of reaction from students, activists and others painfully affected by this judge’s rulings in the Revolutionary Courts during his lifetime. Beginning …

Iran-wire – Top Iranian chess referee Shohreh Bayat has been granted asylum in the UK after being photographed without a hijab at an international tournament last year. The 32-year-old is an arbiter for the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and was chief arbiter of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2020. What should have been a career highlight pitched Bayat into the centre of …

Iran-wire – In the eight months since the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran, many of the most bizarre pronouncements both about the virus and attempts to control it have come from Health Minister Saeed Namaki – especially when he is addressing either the Supreme Leader or the president of the Islamic Republic. Since late September the official daily death toll has …

Iran-HRM- A recent report from a social worker in Iran has shed more light on the abysmal conditions inside Iranian jails. The shocking report by Mr. Ali Mohammadzadeh who aids victims of addiction in prisons reveals new dimensions of the crimes committed years against inmates in the clerical regime’s dungeons, especially against death-row prisoners. Horror verdicts The report received Iran …