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iranintl – US Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Maier told a Congressional panel on Thursday that the Defense Department is looking into reports whether his chief of staff had contacts had covert contacts with Iran. Iran International published a report September 26, detailing information obtained from hundreds of emails by Iranian diplomats showing that three individuals close to US Special …

Iranwire – Heavily armed Iranian forces deployed across Zahedan ahead of the first anniversary of the Bloody Friday massacre, which claimed the lives of more than 100 people in the southeastern city.  The authorities, fearing a flare up in protests ahead of the September 30 anniversary, put Makki Mosque, the largest Sunni mosque in Iran, under siege, according to Haalvsh, …

Iranwire – Farzad Rezaei, a 41-year-old resident of the central Iranian city of Arak, was arrested by intelligence officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on September 14 and was taken to an undisclosed location. Rezaei’s family has been searching for him for the past two weeks. Security authorities have provided no clear answers regarding the reason for his …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested two brothers and the daughter of prominent political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri, who was hospitalized this week for a serious heart condition. Hossein and Mohammad Hossein Sepehri were arrested on September 27, the same day their sister was transferred from Vakil Abad prison to Qaim Hospital in the northeastern city of Mashhad, their brother Ali …

Iranwire – “There are so many of them that I grapple with deciding which one to tell you about. I find myself quite perplexed.” These are the words of a Baluch civil activist who, with a heavy heart, helped IranWire compile this report on the circumstances surrounding the death of some of the innocent victims of Zahedan’s Bloody Friday. September …