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iranintl – Iran’s foreign ministry says there is “sufficient evidence” for the charge of espionage brought against a Swedish EU diplomat whose trial began in Tehran Saturday. Iran’s judiciary on Sunday accused Johan Niels Floderus, a 33-year-old Swedish citizen and EU diplomat of extensive intelligence collaboration with Israel against the Islamic Republic. The foreign ministry spokesman Naser Kanaani on Monday …

iranintl – The scale of the latest financial corruption case in Iran has been so huge that officials and media see no harm in revealing and discussing previous cases. Faraz daily and Rouydad24 are only two of the well-informed and well-connected Iranian news websites that have offered timelines and background on major cases of financial corruption in Iran since 1979. …

RFL/RE – Akbar Jafari, a professor at Tehran’s Sharif University, has resigned after being summoned and interrogated by security agents over his support for protests last year sparked by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody. Ali Sharifi Zarchi, a faculty member at Sharif University who was previously dismissed for backing student demonstrators, confirmed the expulsion, noting that Jafari had …

Iranwire – Homa, 42, has experienced the hardships of refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye, where she endured 10 years of exile without a work permit.  As she tried to reach Greece for a better life, she was raped by people in plainclothes while Greek border police were watching. Homa’s journey began when the Ministry of Intelligence raided her office …

Iranwire – A “bank guard” has been executed in Iran after being convicted of fatally shooting a senior cleric earlier this year, according to a news outlet affiliated with the judiciary. The man behind Abbas Ali Suleimani’s killing was executed in Babol in the presence of the victim’s family, the Mizan News Agency reported on December 13. The report said a court …