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Iran-HRM – Three girls died in a school fire at a private pre-primary and primary girls’ school in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Tuesday.

RFL/RE – The brother of Iran’s former reformist President Mohammad Khatami is being prosecuted for claiming in a recent interview that ballot-stuffing occurred during the disputed 2009 presidential election, a senior judiciary official has said.

VOA – Washington is reconsidering its practice of letting hostile Iranian officials send their children to U.S. schools because it sees that as unfair to other Iranians, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook says.

gatestoneinstitute.org – Is a Plan B possible? No one knows for sure.

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on December 18th, 2018 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).