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Pompeo: Iran’s involvement in Saudi Aramco attacks increases risk of conflict

AL-Arabia – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Iran’s involvement in the Saudi Aramco attacks increases the risk of conflict. He made the remarks at the Iran Summit, hosted by United Against Nuclear Iran. Pompeo also said that “the enforcement of sanctions [on Iran] has been, and will continue to be, relentless.” Sanctions have forced the …

95th Woman Executed in Iran During Rouhani’s Presidency

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities executed a woman on Thursday morning, September 26, 2019, in Sanandaj Prison. She was identified as Leila Zarafshan and was in prison since five years ago on murder charges. Leila Zarafshan is the 95th woman to be executed in Iran during Rouhani’s term in office since 2013. Iran is the only country that executes juveniles and …

Iran Sentences Student Activist to Seven Years in Prison For “Peaceful Protest”

Iran-HRM – A court in Tehran upheld a seven-year prison sentence and 74 lashes for a Tehran University student activist, detained for taking part in student protests. The 36th Branch of Tehran’s Revision Court upheld the preliminary sentence issued for Tehran University student, Parisa Rafiei. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran had earlier sentenced Parisa Rafii to 7 years prison and 74 lashes …

VOA- President Donald Trump Wednesday gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or nonimmigrants, the White House said in a proclamation. The proclamation, posted on the White House website and bearing Wednesday’s date, repeated U.S. accusations that Iran sponsors terrorism, arbitrarily detains American citizens, threatens …

Iran: Family of women’s rights activist arrested in despicable attempt to intimidate her into silence

Amnesty – Iranian authorities have arrested three family members of Masih Alinejad, a prominent US-based Iranian journalist and activist as retribution for her women’s rights activism, Amnesty International revealed today. Masih Alinejad is founder of the White Wednesdays campaign against forced veiling laws in Iran, which has gathered widespread support among women and girls in Iran in recent years. Masih …

iranintl – A government billboard in Tehran encouraging young girls to be homemakers and mothe…

iranintl – On Friday, prominent Sunni Muslim cleric Mowlavi Abdulhamid called on the Iranian g…

iranintl – Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi told the international community on Saturday that…

iranintl – The vote tally from Iran’s run-off parliamentary elections on May 10, conduct…

VOA – Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election runoff to give t…

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he protest feeds on media attention. As soon as TV cameras are swi…

iranintl – Nechirvan Barzani, the President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, made an unexpect…

iranintl – Several of Iran’s top clerics have expressed concern over high inflation, fluctuati…

iranintl – A statement from Iran’s Interior Minister, Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday shed lig…

iranintl – An Islamic cleric in Iran is claiming that letters penned by Iran’s Supreme L…

iranintl – Canada’s intelligence agency is pointing to escalating aggression by Iran in Wester…

RFL/RE – The United States wants to force a gradual shift in Iran’s “decision-making calculus”…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a union activist to over four years in prison. T…

Iranwire – Amir Velayati, a protester who sustained eye injuries during the 2022 nationwide pr…

VOA – Iranian protest rap music artists Daniel Moghadam and Vafa Ahmadpour, known as Vafadar, …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Ayatollah Khamenei’s initial issuance of a fatwa against nuclea…

iranintl – Iran might already possess a nuclear weapon, an insider politician in Tehran said o…

iranintl – An Iranian cleric says that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has assured embattled Moham…

iranintl – The latest brutal crackdown enforcing hijab comes on the direct orders of Supreme L…

iranintl – Iran’s two-decade delay in developing its underground gas storage (UGS) facil…

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