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IRGC Commander Killed in Damascus Previously Suppressed Protests in Iran

Iranwire – Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus on Monday had previously been involved in quelling anti-establishment protests in Iran. In December 2023 IranWire obtained several hours of video footage of joint exercises between the IRGC and the police force of the Islamic Republic to prepare for …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic has pledged to retaliate against suspected Israeli airstrikes that killed several members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Damascus on Monday. At least seven members of the IRGC, including two senior commanders, died in the attack. Islamic Republic Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, condemned the attack. Iran, he said, has the right to retaliate and …

Iranwire – The Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Shahriar Bayat, a 64-year-old political prisoner, to death on charges of allegedly “insulting the prophet of Islam.” Bayat’s family confirmed the March 24 verdict when he was on the final day of his furlough from Evin prison, according to the HRANA human rights news agency. The ruling was issued by Branch 13 …

CHRI – The ongoing state persecution of Mashallah Karami, whose son was unlawfully executed following protests that erupted across Iran in September 2022, epitomizes a wider campaign of repression against families seeking justice in Iran, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This grieving father’s pursuit of justice is being stifled by the state’s relentless efforts to …

iranintl – Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, has conveyed his well-wishes to Pouria Zeraati, the Iran International TV journalist who was attacked in a stabbing incident in London. Dermer, a key advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former ambassador of Israel to the United States, personally reached out to Zeraati on Monday morning to convey his wishes …

iranintl – Responding to overnight attacks on the positions of an Iran-backed group in Iraq, a…

iranintl – The dangers facing Iranian cross-border porters, known as Kolbars, have intensified…

iranintl – US and Iraqi companies have signed two deals, seemingly aiming to make the country …

RFL/RE – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said she fears Iran could use the confrontati…

Iranwire – French authorities detained a man on Friday who threatened to detonate himself at I…

Iranwire – A senior official of the Islamic Republic has warned that Iran could “review&…

Iranwire – Authorities in Bushehr Province have detained seven women for their involvement in …

Iranwire – A young Iranian girl whose sister lost her life during the 2022 nationwide protests…

VOA – After years of high-level US pressure on its ally to show restraint, Israel’s purp…

VOA – Over last weekend, as Iran began its air assault against Israel, at home it announced ne…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter explicitly prohibits the thr…

Al-Arabia – Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an I…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have handed prison sentences to prominent women journalists Sab…

Iranwire – Located 12 kilometers from the Ahvaz road to Masjed Soleyman city, next to to Shiba…

Iranwire – Twelve Iranian women’s rights activists from the northern province of Gilan a…

iranintl – The fundamental policy of the Islamic Republic has traditionally been to avoid dire…

RFL/RE – The sister of Nika Shakarmi, a victim of the Women, Life, Freedom movement protests, …

VOA – Israel carried out a predawn aerial strike inside Iran on Friday, local time, U.S. media…

iranhr – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read …

Iran Human Rights – April 18, 2024: Afshin Bagh Shirin, a man on death row for drug-related ch…

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