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Iran Human Rights – According to the Iranian state media, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, announced that cases of 1700 of the prisoners sentenced to death or life imprisonment for drug-related crimes in Tehran have been reviewed, while there are 1300 more requests which remain to be reviewed in the future. 

CHRI – The authorities of Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison led 24-year-old Kurdish death row prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi to believe that he would soon be executed by initiating several procedures usually conducted before an inmate is hanged.

Al-Monitor – Parts of the Tehran Grand Bazaar, a traditionalist bastion in the heart of the Iranian capital, shuttered on June 25 in the wake of the significant currency devaluation and resulting high prices. The strike comes amid demands from mainly conservative political figures that President Hassan Rouhani resign due to his “inefficiency” and “mismanagement” of the economy. Yet, while the calls and …

Al-Monitor – As President Hassan Rouhani embarked on a European trip to salvage the nuclear deal, news broke that a Belgian couple of Iranian origin had been arrested for allegedly planning to attack a Paris gathering of a dissident group working to overthrow the Iranian government. Iran has not only denied the allegations but claimed that it was a “false flag” …

RFL/RE – An intense heat wave is shattering temperature records in Iran and the Caucasus nations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia, causing power shortages that are adding to discomfort in the region.