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Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency has announced the transfer of entrepreneur Mohammad Rostami Safa to prison to serve a 15-year sentence for fraud.  Rostami Safa, the owner of the Rostami Safa Industrial Group, was sentenced in August for defrauding three major Iranian banks between 2003 and 2013.  Rostami Safa obtained large loans in foreign currencies and rials …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran says it has sent up a rocket with a capsule carrying animals, as part of a program aimed at manned space flight. State media quoted Telecommunications Minister Isa Zarepour as saying the capsule was launched 130 kilometers into orbit on December 6.  He said the launch was aimed at sending astronauts to space …

Iranwire – An Iranian former student rights activist has gone on trial on charges of  “propaganda against the system,” “collusion” and “promotion of corruption,” IranWire has learned. Ali Abdi, an ex-member of the Sharif University of Technology Islamic Association of Students, returned to Iran on June 22 following 14 years of exile.  Before his arrest, he participated in discussions on …

Iranwire – US authorities have published an advisory on a cyber group said to be affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and using Israeli-made systems to attack American facilities. Called the CyberAv3ngers, the hackers are “actively targeting and compromising Israeli-made Unitronics Vision Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that are are commonly used to manage …

VOA – Former Israeli Missile Defense Organization founder Uzi Rubin on how Iran has helped its Houthi and Hamas proxies to improve their missile and rocket capabilities. German European Parliament member Hannah Neumann on Iran’s re-arrest of dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi and her plans to attend Nobel peace prize ceremony for Iran’s jailed rights activist Narges Mohammadi on Dec. 10. …