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Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty International said today. Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 after a grossly unfair trial. On 9 May 2020, he was transferred from the central prison in Urumieh, in West …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s president said the country is looking to reopen under certain health guidelines.  Iranians wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they drive with the metro, in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2020.  Photo by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS. President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran will seek to reopen …

PayvandNews – Iran’s minister of transportation says an initial deal has been reached with the neighboring Iraq to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and would help boost trade between the two neighboring countries. Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western Iranian border to …

Shabtabnews – On December 3rd, 2011, the Islamic Republic ordered its ‘cyber army’ to hunt, steal, and decrypt classified manufacturing blueprints of the Sentinel RQ-170 American spy drone. As result of which, for years later it boasted its prowess in successfully “reverse engineering” the manufacture of American drones. The  Sentinel RQ-170, which was built by Lockheed Martin and used by …

Radiofarda – Iranian media have reported that an oil worker in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province hanged himself on Wednesday after his repeated appeals to the contractor to pay his overdue wages failed. According to media and social media reports Omran Roshani-Moghadam who worked as a security guard at F19 oil well of Yadavaran oil field hanged himself at the site …