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Iran-HRM – The state-run media in Iran have for the first time revealed sexual abuse of women and use of sex slavery in Iran and the Iranian tourism industry.

Iran-HRM – Social harms have become feminized in Iran and turned into a tragedy that has swept across the country. For the first time, the deputy director of the Social Affairs Organization of the Ministry of Interior revealed the huge dimensions of social ailments afflicting women in Iran, and emphasized that social ailments are becoming feminized.

RFL/RE – A leading Iranian reformist has called upon the panel of conservative clerics tasked with supervising the work of Iran’s supreme leader to hold Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accountable instead of showering him with “praise.”

RFL/RE – Japanese news media are reporting that the country’s major oil wholesalers are preparing to suspend crude imports next month.

VOA – Iran is voicing support for an impending Syrian offensive to recapture the last remaining major opposition stronghold, saying the Idlib region in northwestern Syria should be cleared of “terrorists.”