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PayvandNews – The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 2,152 COVID-19 infections and 117 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.  Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Monday, saying that the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 388,810 with the death toll standing at 22,410. A student being …

PayvandNews – Some 850,000 people have lost their jobs since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran until August 1, Masoud Babaei, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare, said on Monday.  Since the first cases of the disease were identified in the country, numerous businesses were affected, 62 percent of which were in the service sector …

Shabtabnews – In a series of tweets UCIRF “demanded the release of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, the human right activist and author who was arrested over an unpublished short story criticizing the religiously-justified practice of stoning women to death. Since then, #Iran has only doubled down on this egregious violation of religious freedom.” On this day in 2014, Iranian author @golrokhiraee …

Radiofarda – An award-winning Iranian student is allegedly under pressure to make a forced televised confession in order to commute his death sentence, his sister says. In a tweet on Saturday, Ali Younesi’s sister, Aida, said that the Ministry of Intelligence agents in charge of investigating her brother’s case gave her brother the option to make a televised confession on …

Radiofarda – Abolhassan Firoozabadi, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace (ISCC), says that if Internet platforms are not compatible with the laws and standards of the Islamic Republic, they will be censored. Firoozabadi said on Sunday that filters may be implemented on Internet content “if the platforms do not comply with Iranian law” or “create cultural, social, political …