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Radiofarda – The Friday Prayer Imam of Iran’s second-largest city Mashhad, mid-ranking cleric Ahmad Alamalhoda, says, although the Islamic republic is a “safe castle,” but the “enemy” could infiltrate through the “colossal gate of democracy and elections.” Speaking during Friday Prayer, on December 13, Alamalhoda described the Islamic Republic’s elections watchdog, the Guardian Council (GC), as the “gatekeeper” that would …

Radiofarda – An Iranian Judiciary official on Thursday said 135 young men and women “whose appearance resembled devil worshipers” were arrested in the suburbs of the capital Tehran. Paraphernalia sold in Iran associated with Satanism. Undated Iranian authorities consider certain types of clothing, paraphernalia and accessories such as those with Gothic symbols as well as body art and rap, rock, …

Al-Arabia – Lebanese Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said that the mass protests in Lebanon were being used as an American tool to pressure Iran. In a televised speech on Friday, the Hezbollah leader also said that the Lebanese government had made the wrong decision to increase fees, referring to a government revenue-raising measure unveiled in October in which a charge …

RFL/RE – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Iran of a “decisive” response if U.S. interests are harmed in Iraq following rocket attacks on bases used by U.S. troops. In a statement on December 13, Pompeo accused Iran’s “proxies” of conducting “several attacks against bases where Iraqi Security Forces are co-located with U.S. and International Coalition personnel” involved in the fight …

CHRI – Family Ordered to Conceal Shiraz Man’s Death at Protest Iranian authorities pressured the family of Bahman Jafari, who died from a bullet wound to his heart on November 17, 2019, while state forces were trying to crush a protest in the city of Shiraz, to lie about his cause of death, Jafari’s cousin told the Center for Human …