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Iranwire – Iranian authorities executed Kurdish prisoner Qasem Abasteh on November 5 in Karaj’s Ghezelhesar prison, near Tehran.  The Hengaw human rights group reported that the hanging was carried out after Abasteh had spent 13 years and nine months behind bars. Abasteh was arrested on December 7, 2009, on murder charges.  However, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced …

Iranwire – The 1970s were the heyday of the Iranian oil industry, when the country’s output accounted for 10 percent of global production.  In the mid-1970s, Iran pumped a record 6 million barrels per day (bpd), almost four times more than the neighboring United Arab Emirates, and its output represented around 20 percent of global demand. But national oil production …

gatestoneinstitute.org – A pause or a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and prepare new attacks against Israelis. On November 4, Hamas took advantage of a humanitarian window of opportunity… and carried out attacks with mortar fire and anti-tank missiles against Israelis. On November 4, however, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to his credit and that of the Biden …

iranintl – Iranian hardliners have once more threatened the United States, Britain and France with escalation of the war in Gaza, as they avoid direct involvement. The latest threat came in the form of a resolution Saturday, delivered at the end of the state-organized rally to mark the anniversary of the infamous 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran. …

RFL/RE – Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a renowned Iranian religious scholar and political activist who openly opposes the Islamic republic’s draconian hijab law, has a simple explanation for why the country’s clerical establishment turns to violence to enforce hard-line policies the majority does not support. “They believe that people should always submit to the government without question,” Vasmaghi told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda …