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Radiofarda – Iran’s “ancient sport” — or “varzesh bastani” — a traditional form of athletics that combines elements of Islam and ancient Persian beliefs, has long been a male-only domain. But not so much anymore. In recent years, an increasing number of women have taken on the discipline. The sport is also referred to as “varzesh pahlavani,” meaning the sport …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged on June 16 at the central prison of Shiraz city for murder.  According to IHR sources, on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, death row prisoner Yasser Abdollahzadeh (31) was hanged at Shiraz central prison. He was arrested and sentenced to death for murdering a man over financial disputes three years …

Radiofarda – A former Iranian judge who fled to Romania and was found dead in Bucharest on June 19 spoke with his family and sounded fine hours before his body was found in a hotel, his attorney says. Etemaad Online, a local news website quoted the lawyer, Amir Hossein Najafpur Sani in Tehran as saying that he was shocked when he found …

RFL/RE – The U.S. special envoy for Iran has welcomed a resolution passed on June 19 by the board of governors of the United Nations’ atomic agency that urges Iran to provide access to two sites where nuclear activity may have occurred in the past.Brian Hook said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board’s resolution “is significant and it raises …

Iran-HRM – A 34-year-old prisoner in Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan province was tortured to death in the city’s prison, a human rights group said.According to the report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, prison agents forced his father to write off the cause of death as COVID-19 even though he had tested negative for the virus upon entering the …