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lobelog – Social media users in Azerbaijan are dancing on video to express solidarity with their ethnic kin in northern Iran.

Al-Arabia – Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began state-wide strike against the executions of Kurdish activists and the bombing of opposition parties in neighboring states.

CHRI – The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ailing political prisoner to go on furlough (temporary leave) so she can visit her ailing father and receive medical treatment. 

RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order aimed at punishing foreigners who interfere in U.S. elections.

RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has described accusations by the United States that Tehran’s allies were responsible for recent attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Iraq as “astonishing, provocative, and irresponsible,” Iranian media report.