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HRW – Activists Face Prolonged Detention, Threat of Torture

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Caspian Sea regions have always had abundant water resources, but they face a new threat as drought forces residents in the interior of the country to move north.

Al-Monitor – As a third day of protests erupted across major Iranian cities over the country’s worsening economic situation, the clergy in Iran is looking inward. Rather than only pointing the blame at US sanctions, the most senior clerics in Iran — often referred to as “grand ayatollahs” — are demanding that the administration and the judiciary take a harder line fighting …

theglobepost – Despite all the efforts, the exiled Iranian political-militant organization Mojahedin-e Khalqm’s (MEK) remains unpopular among ordinary Iranians, Iranian dissidents, and opposition figures in the United States.

RFL/RE – A glimpse into the conspicuous “luxury” of the wedding of an Iranian ambassador’s son has rekindled public criticism of the high times enjoyed by children of Iran’s elite while many of the country’s 82 million people face acute economic pressure.