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Iranwire – Iran International has learned that parents of Armita Geravand, the teenage girl in coma after an encounter with hijab enforcers, were pressured not to file a lawsuit. Based on the information obtained by Iran International, Armita’s parents were recently taken to the office of Delavar Alghasi-Mehr, the police commander of eastern part of Tehran province. There, they were …

RFL/RE – Iranian leaders have called for an “immediate” halt to Israel’s offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and warned “other fronts will open up” in the conflict, fanning global concerns that the war could quickly escalate. Israel pounded southern Gaza for an 11th day on October 17 in response to a Hamas attack inside Israel that killed …

Iranwire – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has implicitly defended the killing of civilians in southern Israel by the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.  In a speech on October 17, Khamenei sought to water down the atrocities committed by Hamas, saying that “those who are in the settlements are not civilians; they are all armed.” “Even assuming that they are civilians, …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced the legal representative of Mahsa Amini’s family to one year in prison for “propaganda activity” against the Islamic Republic, according to an activist group. The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network said that Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran also banned Saleh Nikbakht from online activities for a period of two …

Iranwire – After Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei denied any involvement of the Islamic Republic in the unprecedented attack by the Hamas terrorist group on Israel, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian threatened an “expansion of war fronts” if Israeli forces launch a ground assault in Gaza.  The question of whether the Islamic Republic is bluffing remains open to interpretation, and only time …