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Coronavirus: Five Iranian IRGC members dead

Al-Arabia -Five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have died from coronavirus, IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said on Wednesday. Visit our dedicated coronavirus site here for all the latest updates. The five IRGC members and a number of Basij members have been “martyred” in the “fight against coronavirus,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency cited Sharif as saying. The …

U.S. Demands Release Of U.S. Citizens In Iran As Federal Court Rules On Missing FBI Agent

RFL/RE – The United States has called on Iran to “immediately release on humanitarian grounds” all U.S. citizens who are “wrongfully” detained in the country. “The United States will hold the Iranian regime directly responsible for any American deaths. Our response will be decisive,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on March 10. His remarks came amid news that …

CHRI -– Individuals detained in Iranian detention facilities are suffering from serious human rights violations and the situation of those arrested during the November 2019 protests is a subject of particular concern, said a UN expert in his latest report presented to the Human Rights Council. Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of …

A cleric’s cure for coronavirus becomes butt of jokes in Iran

Al-Monitor – Amid anxieties in Iran over the coronavirus outbreak and a flurry of precautions to prevent its spread, a controversial ayatollah has declared a new method to “cure” the virus: applying violet oil to the anus. Abbas Tabrizian, described by his supporters as “the father of Islamic medicine of Iran,” began focusing on “Islamic medicine” when his wife was diagnosed with …

Al-Monitor – As expected, conservatives (known as Principlists) won Iran’s parliamentary election Feb. 21 with about 85% of the vote. This election was a revival for conservatives after their defeat in previous parliamentary and presidential elections. More importantly, conservatives’ victory could be a prelude to a win in next year’s presidential election. If that happens, conservatives will control most political …

iranintl – The secretary of the union of Iran’s university professors warned that the Interior…

iranintl – The Islamic Republic’s Education Minister is criticizing UNESCO’s 2030 Education Ag…

iranintl – The appointment of Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of President Ebrahim Raisi, to the …

iranintl – Iran retained its position as the second highest country to imprison writers amid t…

RFL/RE – An Iranian warship equipped with drones and missiles has crossed the equator into the…

VOA – Supporters of two U.S. nationals seen as unjustly imprisoned overseas are raising concer…

RFL/RE – Iran has released the crew of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel but r…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s Encirclement of Israel, Control of Red Sea, Almost Compl…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Sohrab Rafieian and Morteza Azimi, two co-defendants on death row…

iranintl – High-ranking officials from the US treasury will travel to Singapore and Malaysia n…

iranintl – Just over two weeks have passed since Israel conducted its surgical strike against …

iranintl – Israel is building a “cyber dome” to counter online threats, in particu…

iranintl – Since the Mahsa protests, Iran’s courts have prosecuted dozens of individuals…

iranintl – US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine) urged the Biden ad…

iranintl – Despite recent public outcry and opposition to the construction of a mosque in one …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executed Anwar Khezri, a Kurdis…

Iranwire – The start of a new crackdown on women in Iran and the deployment of morality police…

Iranwire – Saeed Mousanejad, a master’s student entering his first year at Tehran Univer…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Never before have sanctions been so ostentatiously disregarded withou…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nasir Hariri, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

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