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RFL/RE – The re-arrest of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has triggered a wave of outrage after reports that armed security agents beat the dissident while taking him into custody even though he is still recovering from being tortured during his previous prison time. Police detained Salehi, a prominent voice in Iran’s recent social and political movements, on November 30 on a street …

VOA – Iranian delegates walked out of U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates in protest Friday over the presence of Israeli representatives, state media reported. The Iranian side considered Israel’s presence at COP28 “as contrary to the goals and guidelines of the conference and, in protest, it left the conference venue,” said Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian, who …

VOA – At least 118 cross-border porters were killed or injured in November, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported this week, adding that more than 93% of them resulted from shootings by the armed forces of Iran. Hengaw said Thursday that eight porters were killed, one of them a child, and 110 were injured, 14 of them children. The …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran must not be underestimated. Iran’s regime has frequently threatened to wipe a whole country — Israel — off the map, and is also increasing military cooperation with Venezuela and Cuba to threaten the US. Europe, too, remains a rich target for nuclear blackmail. Iran would not even have to use its nuclear …

Iran-HRM – After four years since the bloody crackdown in November 2019, where an estimated 1,500 people were killed across Iran, the Iranian judiciary is secretly and silently executing its detained protesters one by one. None of the November 2019 protesters had been executed in these four years, but within a span of nine days, three of them have been …