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Al-Arabia – Tehran is “firm and ready for all scenarios” after the British-operated tanker seizure in the Gulf, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said on Sunday. On his official Twitter account, Baeidinejad said that there are “domestic forces” in the UK who want to escalate existing tensions between Iran and the UK. Hamid Baeidinejad@baeidinejad UK government should contain …

Al-Arabi – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that US National Security Adviser John Bolton is “turning his venom against the UK” after failing to “lure Trump into [the] War of the Century].” On his official Twitter account, he added that only “prudence and foresight” could alleviate tensions between his country and Britain after Tehran’s seizure of …

Al-Arabia – Iranian state TV says gunmen have killed two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and wounded another two near the border with Pakistan. State TV blamed the attack late Saturday on “terrorists” without elaborating. The southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province has been the scene of past clashes involving Sunni militants and drug smugglers. In February, an …

Iran-HRM -Clampdown on civil liberties has been stepped up in Iran under various pretexts in the past few months. The new wave of suppression especially targets the women with the regime introducing new plans to deal with what it deems “unchaste” and “improper”. On July 18, Iran’s Chief of Police cited the “Observer One” plan, enforced against women who refuse …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi has been on a hunger strike since May 21, 2019 in Zabol Prison in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, demanding to be returned to the political ward. Arzhang Davoudi, 66, has been locked up held in a ward with inmates convicted of violent crimes, in violation of Iran’s regulations on separation of …