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CHRI – Judicial Order Tied to Previously Undeclared Policy of App Usage Level Eight months after Iran blocked the country’s most widely used messaging app, Telegram, a deputy prosecutor has announced a judicial order to also filter Instagram due to what he described as over-usage of the social media app.

CHRI – Prisoner of conscience Alireza Tavakoli, currently imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for his social media postings, is hunger striking to be “transferred and treated at a medical center for chickenpox,” a source with knowledge of the case told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

Radiofarda – The Strategic Foreign Relations Council set up by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says it is not in Iran’s interest to take action about the slow pace of Europe’s initiative to come up with a mechanism to allow trade while Iran is targeted by U.S. sanctions.

Radiofarda – More details have been revealed about the last meeting between Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the leader of Iran’s Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that “the sanctions on Iran have an ultimate goal” of “creating an outcome where the Iranian people could have better lives than they have today under this tyrannical regime”.