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Iran-HRM – A Tehran appeals court has upheld the flogging and prison sentence of a civil rights activist. The branch 36 of Tehran’s Appeals Court has upheld 74 lashes and a six-year prison sentence for Sepideh Farhan, graduate of architecture and a civil activist on charges of “disrupting public order through participating in illegal gatherings” and “association and collusion to …

Iran-HRM – Iran’s intelligence agents arrested a political prisoner’s mother during a raid on Monday. Farangis Mazloumi, the mother of Soheil Arabi, a prominent political prisoner was arrested and taken to an unknown location on Monday July 22, 2019, after eight intelligence agents raided the residence of her sister. They confiscated Farangis Mazloumi and her sister’s cellphones and then took …

RFL/RE – An unnamed U.S. official has told Fox News that Iran has test fired a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile, which if confirmed would likely add to already high tensions between Washington and Tehran.Fox late on July 25 quoted another senior U.S. administration official as saying that “we are aware of reports of a projectile launched from Iran and have …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he would be willing to go to Tehran to address the Iranian people and explain how their leaders’ actions have “harmed” their country.“Sure, if that’s the call, [I’ll] happily go there,” Pompeo told Bloomberg Television on July 25 in a wide-ranging interview that also addressed the North Korea crisis and Turkey’s …

gatestoneinstitute,org – Jack Straw’s misunderstanding, perhaps caused by his “absolute infatuation” with his imaginary Iran, has three aspects. The first is that he thinks that because Iran is an ancient civilization — and has produced great poets, weaves exquisite carpets and offers one of the world’s hautes cuisines — it deserves indulgence for its weird activities in other domains such as hostage-taking, …