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Iran Human Rights (IHR) –  The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) on Thursday, November 29, 2019, announced that its human rights award for 2019 goes to the four Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Amirsalar Davoudi, Mohammad Najafi and Nasrin Sotoudeh. Lawyers Nasrin Sotudeh, Mohammad Najafi and Amirsalar Davoudi are imprisoned in Iran solely for expressing their opinion …

Al-Monitor – Iran is taking another step toward expanding its nuclear program by officially starting construction of the second unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Tehran showed it is determined to continue this program by announcing Nov. 10 it has begun expanding the commercial reactor site. On Nov. 5, it had announced it would begin enriching uranium at its Fordow …

Radio Farda- has interviewed the father of a young man whose son was killed by security forces on during recent anti-government protests in Iran. “For five years, I fought in the battlefield to push back the enemy from our homeland, and now they have killed my son merely for protesting an increase in gasoline prices”, says an Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), …

Radiofarda – Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has denied being a Qatari asset and passing sensitive information through intermediaries to Iran, her office told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. According to the Israeli newspaper a court in Florida was told by a witness that the Somali-born congresswoman had been recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive …

Radiofarda – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has tried to distance himself from a controversial move of raising gasoline prices that led to days of widespread protests in Iran and the death of more than 140 protesters. He claimed on Wednesday that he did not know when and how the price of gasoline would be increased, while on November 15 when …