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RFL/RE – Iranians are blasting their government for rationing gas and greatly increasing its price, with many concerned that the move will lead to inflation and greater hardship in a country where so many people are struggling to make ends meet. The state-run National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company said in an overnight announcement on November 15 that each motorist …

VOA – Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas in renewed clashes with anti-government protesters in central Baghdad on Friday, killing three people, while Iraq’s top Shi’ite religious leader warned its government to heed calls for sweeping political reforms. Separately, a bomb placed under a car exploded near a central square, killing two protesters and wounding 10 others, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged for murder charges at the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas Thursday. According to IHR sources, on the early morning of Thursday, November 14, a man was hanged at the central prison of the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas. His identity was revealed by IHR sources as Salman Babanzadeh, 33, from …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man has been executed for rape charges earlier this year. According to HRANA, at a time between the end of April and beginning of May, a prisoner was hanged in Maragheh prison. His identity was revealed as Vahid Nedamat, 21, from the Iranian city of Maragheh. Neither Iranian authorities nor media announced his execution.  IHR reported earlier about …

CHRI – Siavash Hayati, spokesman for the minority Yarasan faith, was prohibited from completing his master’s degree and expelled from Razi University in Kermanshah, western Iran, for refusing to renounce his religious beliefs. “At the university’s security office and the office for graduate studies, they told me to change my declaration of faith and write down I’m a Muslim, otherwise there was nothing …