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Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man hanged at Zanjan prison for murder charges last Monday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, July 8, a man was hanged at Zanjan prison. He is identified by IHR sources as Mostafa Shiri, 42, a resident of the Iranian city of Marand. Mr Shiri was sentenced to death for murder …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s housing sector is in a dire state, with prices skyrocketing and sales plummeting across the country, especially in metropolises. The government of President Hassan Rouhani and the parliament have several major initiatives in the works, but do they really stand a chance at turning the faltering sector around? When President Donald Trump announced in May 2018 that …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Human Rights News Agency, HRANA, reported on Wednesday July 10 that outspoken political activist Mohammad Nourizad, has been jailed. Nourizad was one of the signatories of a statement by 14 Iranian activists who called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to resign in order to end the country’s political deadlock. Nourizad had said on Monday …

Radiofarda – Iranian media reported Thursday, July 11 that another clash has taken place between the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, IRGC and a “terrorist team” in Western Iran. The exact date or time of the clash has not been disclosed, but it appears it must have occurred on Wednesday or Thursday. Media quotes an IRGC statement saying that a militant …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he has received no proposal to exchange a British-Iranian prisoner in Tehran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with Iran’s detained oil tanker in Gibraltar. Zarif called the seizure of the oil tanker an act of piracy, while adding that he has received no offer from the UK government to release the oil tanker Grace …