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Iranwire – In a coordinated operation on January 9, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence raided the homes of several Baha’i families in Tabriz, marking a fresh escalation in the government’s pressure campaign against the religious minority. IranWire obtained a report detailing the raids, which targeted at least six Baha’i households. Agents confiscated religious texts, photos, and personal belongings, including …

Iranwirew – The US Office of the Special Envoy for Iran has condemned death sentences handed down recently against four Kurdish Iranian men, and urged the country’s authorities to “repress their own people.” On January 6, the Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw reported that the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Court had upheld the death sentences for the four political prisoners aged …

Iranwire – Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 11 opened two days of legal arguments in a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in its war with Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.  Addressing the ICJ judges in The Hague, South Africa pleaded for an interim order for an immediate halt to Israel’s military offensive …

VOA — When U.S. and U.K. warships and aircraft launched waves of missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early Friday in Sanaa, it capped weeks of warnings to the group to cease their drone and missile attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea or face severe consequences. Previously the U.S. had withheld striking back, reflecting larger U.S. concerns about …

RFL/RE – The United States on January 11 condemned Iran’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Oman and called for the immediate release of the ship and its crew. “This unlawful seizure of a commercial vessel is just the latest behavior by Iran or enabled by Iran aimed at disrupting international commerce,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant …