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Radiofarda – According to the latest official statistics on Tuesday, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Iran has considerably increased to the highest level in the past two months prompting Health Minister Saeed Namaki to warn that “circumstances are not normal”. In his daily briefing on Tuesday, the Health Ministry Spokesman Dr. Kianoush Jahanpur said “on the basis of …

Iran-HRM – Nearly one month after the arrest of a woman in the northern Bushehr Province, Iranian authorities have refused to provide any information on her fate, leaving her family worried about her condition.Somayeh Ramouz was arrested on May 9, 2020 by officials from the ministry of intelligence in Bushehr. She has been apparently detained for her activities on social …

RFL/RE – Iran is using the killing in the United States of an African-American man at the hands of a white policeman and the angry wave of protests it has caused as a propaganda tool to settle scores with Washington, which has imposed a campaign of “maximum pressure” on Tehran that includes crippling economic sanctions. Iranian officials have denounced the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A death row prisoner was hanged on June 1 at the central prison of Mashhad city, northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan Razavi. According to Khorasan Daily, on the morning of Monday, June 1, 2020, a man was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison. The unnamed prisoner was sentenced to death for murdering his cousin during a fight. …

Al-Monitor – The United States has returned an acquitted Iranian scientist to his home country after holding him for months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Both Washington and Tehran shot down rampant speculation that the United States had detained Sirous Asgari despite his acquittal on sanctions evasion charges in November to secure the release of Americans …