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Iran Human Rights – Iran Human Rights warns that the execution of the Kurdish political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, may be carried out in the next few days. IHR asks the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to stop the execution immediately and overturn this inhumane verdict.

Al-Monitor – Providing landlocked Central Asia with shipping access through Iran’s southeastern Chabahar port has been a hot topic since the fall of the Soviet Union. With China’s One Belt One Road initiative in recent years and investment by Central Asian countries in the new transit routes, Iran faces more challenges than ever to utilize the potential of Chabahar.

Al-Monitor – After 40 years and some last-minute power plays and wrangling between President Hassan Rouhani’s administration and conservatives in the police force, Iranian women were allowed to enter Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch a televised World Cup match, between Iran and Spain, alongside men.

Radiofarda – Iranian officials opened the doors of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to women after forty years, Wednesday evening, June 20, making headlines around the world.

gatestoneinstitute – Most alarming to the U.S. has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s position on Iran, where the regime seems to want to increase its influence in Canada due to its proximity to the U.S. Trudeau has been enabling this penetration.