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Iran-HRM – The police chief in Behbahan, on Friday vowed to deal “decisively” with further protests, a day after security forces fired teargas to disperse protests in the southwestern city of Behbahan. The city’s police announced in an official statement on Friday that they will decisively deal with the protests. Speaking to the official news agency IRNA on Friday 17 July, Behbahan Police …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Mehdi Salimi, a writer and translator, who was arrested on July 7, at his parents’ house in Ahar, is facing charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic, blasphemy, inciting corruption and prostitution, and assembly and collusion against national security”. Over the past year, there has been an intensification in the state repression of writers, artists, …

gatestoneinstitute.org – On June 30, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged the United Nations Security Council to extend the arms embargo on Iran. The Security Council was reluctant to do so. The UN Security Council’s unwillingness seems yet another indication of why the United States, having pulled out of the Human Rights Council and threatening to pull out …

A televised address by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the country’s new parliament July 12 covered a wide range of topics from foreign policy and the domestic economy to the coronavirus pandemic. But what grabbed the most media attention was his rejection of a plan by some lawmakers to impeach President Hassan Rouhani. “The closing year of any administration is usually the …

PayvandNews – Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of two workshops, estimated to date from the Parthian era (247 BC – 224 CE), in Isfahan in a significant discovery that may push back the history of the central Iranian city in time by millennia. “The structures of two Parthian workshops – one, relating to a metal melting kiln and the other to a …