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LA Times—  When Iranian authoritiesrecently imposed a near-total internet blackout for almost a week to helpquell massive street protests, U.S.-based tech entrepreneur Nima Fatemi bolted into action. Fatemi and other security experts have been finding ways around Iranian censorssince 2009, when authoritiesfirst blocked social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook as a means to curb unrest after a disputed presidential election. Yet …

Shabtabnews – Ambassador Sam Brownback , the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom , yesterday expressed his grave concerns in regards to the health and condition of the Gonabadi Sufi’s spiritual leader, Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh and hundreds of Sufi prisoners held in Iranian jails purely because of their faith. Concerned for health of #Gonabadi #Sufi leader Dr. Noor Ali …

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s parliament has said in an Interview on Tuesday that Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli’s unscrupulous confession that protesters were shot in the head and “some were shot in the leg too” during the November protests, was shocking to lawmakers. In the interview with Emtedad website on Monday Mahmoud Sadeghi said that the shockingly nonchalant remark …

Radiofarda – Iran social media users in the past few days have shared shocking images of bodies recovered from dams, reservoirs and rivers that allegedly belong to November protesters more than a month after the deadliest unrest in the history of the Islamic Republic. The images show swollen bodies, many of them with hands tied. Most of the mind-boggling images …

Radiofarda – The number of people visiting national health centers in Iran has dropped 30% in the last Iranian calendar year (ending March 21, 2019), says the deputy head of the Salamat (Health) Insurance and Health Services, Kourosh Farzin. “Health services’ costs have increased in Iran so significantly that they are not proportional to the families’ income,” Farzin noted, adding, …