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Iranian fuel tankers reported off coast of South Africa

Al-Monitor – An Iranian fuel tanker bound for Venezuela showed up on radar on Friday as off the coast of South Africa. Iranian fuel deliveries continue to the South American country after recent US seizures, and the lengthy route around Africa could be to avoid the US military. The website MarineTraffic received a signal from the tanker, named Fortune, on Friday …

Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs

theconversation.com – Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline. Reliable large-scale data on Iranians’ post-revolutionary religious beliefs, however, has always been lacking. Over the years, research and waves of protests and …

USCIRF condemns the upholding of death sentences against 7 Sunni Muslims in Iran

Shabtabnews – USCIRF condemns the upholding of death sentences against 7 Sunni Muslims in #Iran yesterday on charges of “emnity against God.” Iran must cease its ruthless persecution of religious minorities & immediately release all religious prisoners of conscience. USCIRF condemns the upholding of death sentences against 7 Sunni Muslims in #Iran yesterday on charges of "emnity against God." Iran …

Khamenei’s Favorite Preacher Accused of Land-Grabbing

Radiofarda – An outspoken whistle-blowing journalist, Yashar Soltani, has challenged a preacher close to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to explain a suspicious purchase of land he made in 2012. A day earlier, Khamenei’s close ally, the mid-ranking clergyman Alireza Panahian, said in an interview that an apartment was presented to him as a friendly gift. Panahian, a …

Microsoft Says Russian, Iranian, Chinese Hackers Target Biden, Trump Campaigns

RFL/RE – U.S. tech giant Microsoft says hackers linked to Russia, Iran, and China have targeted people and organizations tied to both U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The announcement on September 10 came at the same time that Biden’s main campaign advisory firm said it had been told by Microsoft it was being targeted by the …

Iranwire – Taraneh Alidoosti, Mustafa Al-Ahmad, Bahareh Hedayat, Narges Mohammadi, Arash Sadeg…

iranintl – Fifteen former Iran hostages have censured the Swedish government for “lack of mean…

iranintl – Actress Taraneh Alidoosti and filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad have been diagnosed with d…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has executed three more prisoners, including…

Iranwire – As protests erupted against the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, the T…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a disabled man to four years in prison for ̶…

Iranwire – The police commander of the Islamic Republic revealed that 32 agencies are responsi…

Iranwire – Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has condemned the deat…

Iranwire – Local sources in Sistan and Baluchistan province reported on April 25 that six Iran…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire n…

VOA – The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones…

Iran Human Rights – Ali Khoshavaz, a man on death row for drug-related charges, and Shahram Sh…

iranintl – As much of the global media scrambled to decode where Iranians stand on the escalat…

.iranintl – Two weeks into the latest round of violent crackdowns on Iranian women refusing to…

iranintl – An increasing number of Iranian politicians, media outlets, and senior clerics are …

Iranwire – The death sentence handed down to protest rapper Toomaj Salehi has sparked a wave o…

Iranwire – A new report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center has named Sistan and…

Iranwire – The Dadban legal group has issued a grave warning regarding the imminent execution …

Iranwire – Forty nurses and operating room staff of a Tehran hospital have collectively resign…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran executed four prisoners as death penalties continue to…

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