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VOA — Iran has taken a British-flagged oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz to Bandar Abbas port, where it and its crew will remain while an investigation into the vessel’s conduct is carried out, Iran’s Fars news agency said Saturday. The Stena Impero was in an accident with an Iranian fishing boat whose distress call it ignored, the agency …

VOA — Iran is “nothing but trouble,” U.S. President Donald Trump said after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two British-owned oil tankers Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. “We heard it was one, we heard it was two. We’ll be working with the U.K.,” Trump said on the White House South Lawn in response to a question from VOA. …

Radiozamaneh – An Iranian journalist who was arrested during the May Day pro-labor protest in Tehran more than two months ago was rushed to the hospital from women’s ward of Evin prison while seizing with internal gastrointestinal issues. Photo: Social Media Marzieh Amiri was transferred to Taleghani Hospital from Evin Prison on 15 July, according to her sister Samira Amiri’s …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Civil activist and Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi, has been under arrest since May 23 without access to a lawyer. Zahra Mohammadi, 27, a member of Nojin Socio-Cultural Association, was arrested by security forces in her home in Sanandaj city on May 23, 2019. Almost two months after her arrest, Zahra is still detained in Sanandaj …

CHRI – Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have been told they must serve an additional 3.7 years in prison for the charges of “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state,” Daemi’s mother informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 15, 2019. Masoumeh Nemati said the two women are being punished for writing open letters …