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RFL/RE – The U.S. military has for the fifth time raised the number of U.S. service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian missile attack on an air base in Iraq last month. The Defense Department said on February 10 that 109 U.S. service members had been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, adding that 76 of them …

RFL/RE – With tensions high between the United States and Tehran, Iran’s attempts to reach out to China have increasingly been put on public display. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has made several trips to China in the past year. That includes one highly publicized visit Zarif made to Beijing in late December and early January when the commander …

VOA – An Iranian opposition figure who had been living in exile before being arrested faces the death sentence, the opening day of his trial heard Monday, according to the judiciary’s website. Ruhollah Zam, 41, went on trial “behind closed doors and in the absence of the media,” Fars news agency said. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the arrest …

CHRI – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their whereabouts and condition, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned from first-hand accounts in Iran. CHRI calls upon the Iranian authorities to …

Al-Monitor – Despite Iran’s much-publicized satellite launch on Feb. 9 that failed to reach orbit for the third time, Iranian officials have put a positive spin on the endeavor and stressed the country will continue to progress in its space program. Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi addressed the failure on social media, posting a video on Instagram. …