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VOA — A Washington-based lawyer says a U.S. Navy veteran held in Iran, the first American known to be detained since President Donald Trump took office, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. FILE – Michael White, an American Navy veteran, is seen in an undated photograph. Credit – Joanne White. Mark Zaid told The Associated Press on Saturday …

gatestoneinstitute -The last century witnessed a plethora of ideology-based regimes: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People’s Republic of China, the United Arab Republic and the Buddhist Socialist State of Myanmar among others. The pretension behind all those labels was that rather than being the art of solving the people’s problems, politics was a means of advancing the real …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged at Tabriz prison for a murder charge last Tuesday. According to IHR sources, a prisoner was hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on the morning of Tuesday, March 12. IHR could identify the prisoner as Eslam Farsi, 42. Kurdistan Human Rights Network website has also reported that the prisoner was arrested and …

Al-Monitor – Two separate terrorist attacks in Iran and India last month – both perpetrated by Pakistan-based Islamist groups – have accelerated the ongoing convergence of Tehran and New Delhi. The first attack took place Feb. 13 in Iran’s Zahedan province, claiming the lives of 27 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On Feb. 14, in Kashmir’s Pulwama, a …

Radiofarda – A veteran member of parliament and a former commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been convicted of rape, the head of the Justice Department, Gholamhossein Esmaeili, announced on March 15. Iranian MP Salman Khodadadi (L), who’s been accused of sexual misconduct and one of his alleged victim Zahra Navidpour. Hours later, the IRGC-run Fars news …