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Iran-HRM – Iran social media users in the past few weeks have shared shocking news on suspicious deaths of individuals who were arrested or reported missing during the November protests and found later dead. Reports also indicate that some of the prisoners have already died under torture and others have been forcefully “disappeared” by the regime. In a recent case, …

Iran-HRM – Prison authorities have blocked political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee from contact with her jailed husband, Arash Sadeghi. Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, currently detained in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, is denied to visit and call her husband, Arash Sadeghi, also a political prisoner in Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj.Iraee, who had been serving a six-year prison sentence since …

RFL/RE – Iranian military leaders have warned Washington against threatening military action after U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran would be held responsible for anti-U.S. protests in Iraq. “We are not leading the country to war, but we are not afraid of any war and we tell America to speak correctly with the Iranian nation,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the …

VOA – An Iraqi activist was shot dead overnight in Baghdad, a police source told AFP on Thursday, as anti-government rallies carried on despite a separate day-long siege of the U.S. embassy. The activist, Saadoun al-Luhaybi, was shot in the head in a southwestern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, the police source said. He had been taking part in youth-led …

VOA – An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook northeastern Iran Thursday, but there was little damage and no casualties, state television reported. The quake was centered on an area near Sangan, a town of about 10,000 people near the border with Afghanistan, at a shallow depth of 8 km (5 miles). “Our near-final report is that about 14 villages have …