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VOA — An announcement by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton that Washington is sending an aircraft carrier group and bomber task force to the Middle East is drawing mixed reactions from countries in the region. Iran has condemned the move, while some U.S. allies nod in agreement. Arab media announced the U.S. deployment of the aircraft carrier group USS …

Radiozamaneh – Several Iranian teachers have been arrested in recent days. Activists have raised concerns about their conditions in prison. Teachers Protesting in Hamedan, May 2 On May 2, Iranian teachers gathered in front of local offices of the Education Ministry in several cities to protest against government policies. In the Iranian official calendar, May 2 is Iran’s National Teachers’ …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two men were executed at prisons of the Iranian northwestern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil on April 30 and May 4, 2019, respectively. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on the morning of April 30, a man was hanged at Tabriz central prison for “rape charges.” The unnamed man was 32, from the city …

CHRI – Marzieh Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence Ministry since she was arrested while covering a Labor Day protest in Tehran on May 1, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Amiri was detained after she went to a detention center …

CHRI – Political activist Siavash Rezaeian has been told to report to a prison in central Iran for criticizing former Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani, criticizing Iran’s compulsory hijab law, and condemning the state’s suppression of street protests. “Branch 28 of the Appeals Court in Mazandaran Province upheld a sentence of three months and one day in prison against me for the …