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Iranintl – One of Iran’s cyber espionage tactics to support Hamas is using Hebrew-speaking women to gather intelligence from Israeli soldiers, Iran International has learned. According to our sources, several of these women are based in the religious city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran and use social media to seduce Israeli soldiers by sending nude images or provocative footage of …

Iranwire – An ethnic Baluch man died of a stroke five days after his 19-year-old son, Mahmoud Rakhshani, lost his life in the hands of intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to a human rights group. Haalvsh, an organization that monitors rights violations in Sistan and Baluchistan province, reported that Ebrahim Rakhshani, a 62-year-old construction worker, passed …

Iranwire – A court in Tehran has sentenced Sajjad Imannejad, 32, a man who was arrested during last year’s nationwide protests, to 11 years in prison, according to the activist HRANA news agency. During a hearing on December 17, the judge also ordered Imannejad to pay more than 2.7 billion tomans ($54,000) to seven agents of the Islamic Republic he …

Iranwire – Fayegh Yousefi, an Iranian civil activist and former political prisoner, says intelligence agents have raided his home in the western town of Saqqez, in Kurdistan province. In a video published by the Hengaw human rights organization, Yousefi said that he received a call from the 11th Police Station in Saqqez, claiming that he had committed a traffic violation …

Iranwire – Nine Iranian political activists and intellectuals have condemned the Islamic Republic’s enforcement of mandatory headscarf law, calling it a “major social, political and security issue.” “Compulsory hijab lacks any basis or justification, not only from an intellectual standpoint but also under the framework of traditional Sharia law which the Islamic government claims to adhere to,” they said in …