Shabtabnews In this dark night, I have lost my way – Arise from a corner, oh you the star of guidance.

Al-Arabia – Iran’s currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full US sanctions.

Al-Arabia – Iran’s top security body has approved the release of opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who were placed under house arrest for seven years for leading mass protests in 2009, a family member told local media.

Iran-HRM – Disturbing video showing being flogged in public on July 24, 2018, has obtained from inside Iran.

Iran-HRM – Two women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority, Elham Ahmadi and Sedigheh Safabakht, have been sentenced each to five years in jail by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. They have been detained since 20 February following the violent dispersal of a protest held by Gonabadi Derivshes in Tehran.

RFL/RE – The United States is not after regime change in Iran, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said.