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Payvandnews – Iran says it has launched a train service to Turkey’s Van after a hiatus of about three years with officials expressing hope that it would help increase the number of tourists travelling on either side of the border.

Iran-HRM – Despite a global campaign to save the life of Sufi bus driver Mohammad Salas, reports indicate this 51-year old member of Iran’s Sufi religious minority group has been executed early this morning in what Amnesty International called a “huge miscarriage of justice.” Salas’s family were instructed to receive the corpse from Behesht-e-Sakineh Cemetery of Karaj, west of Tehran.

Amnesty – Mohamed Salas was executed by the Iranian authorities at dawn on 18 June 2018. 

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have executed a man convicted of killing three police officers during clashes involving members of a Sufi order, despite calls to stop his execution.

Radiofarda – Two members of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) have responded to Mashad’s firebrand Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda’s accusation of treason, with counter-accusations implying the ayatollah was involved with threat messages sent to MPs.