Shabtabnews In this dark night, I have lost my way – Arise from a corner, oh you the star of guidance.

tabletmag – The rule for watching the Israel-Lebanon frontier is that although nothing seems to be going on, something always is. Nothing seemed to be going on, for example, on one of the afternoons I recently spent along the electrified fence trying to sense the course of events this fraught summer, gazing out at a green blanket of shrubbery stretching …

Iranwire – Nurses are at increasingly high risk of attempting suicide, a recent study has revealed. Iran’s Psychology and Counseling Organization reported that, according to research carried out in hospitals in the city of Malayer in Hamadan province, more than 38 percent of nurses feel suicidal and or have considered taking their own lives. Speaking on Friday, September 10, Fariborz Taj, a member …

Iranwire – With just two months to go until the second anniversary of the November 2019 protests, and with related crackdowns on protesters and their loved ones still going on inside Iran, human rights defenders are poised for an historic legal case in London. The international “people’s tribunal” known as the Aban Tribunal has been organized by Justice for Iran, Iran …

Iranwire – Vahid Afkari, the jailed brother of Navid Afkari, a wrestler from Shiraz who was executed last September, has been sentenced to two years’ exile from Iran in addition to his outrageous decades-long jail sentence. Brothers Vahid, Habib and Navid were arrested after attending popular protests in August 2018. They were charged with the murder of a security guard and forced to confess …

Iranwire – Parts of a Baha’i cemetery in the village of Kata, in Dana County in the southwestern province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, have been destroyed under cover of darkness. Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported the vandalism on Thursday, also posting a video of the damage. Targeting religious minorities’ burial grounds has been a consistent feature of the Islamic Republic’s …