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Iran Human Rights – Two prisoners were reportedly hanged at Khorammabad’s Parsilon Prison (western Iran) on drug related charges. According to the human rights news agency HRANA, the executions were carried out on the morning of Friday January 20. HRANA has identified the prisoners as Jahangir Beiravand and Adel Beiravand. “Adel Beiravand was innocent, but he was executed based on …

Iranhumanrights.org – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding of the indefensible five-year prison sentence against Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, issued at a secret trial by a Revolutionary Court, reaffirms the collusion between the Judiciary and the country’s security and intelligence agencies that is undermining justice in Iran. The Campaign for Human Rights in …

Iranhumanrights.org – Less than three months into his new post as culture and Islamic guidance minister, Reza Salehi Amiri boasted about banning ten films from entering the Tehran Fajr International Film Festival, “in line with the policies of the supreme leader,” on January 19, 2017. “For the first time, we cut out films with feminist and inappropriate themes and supported 30 films …

Al-Arabia – When former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Jan. 8, much was made of the absence of a message of condolence from Saudi Arabia. This was especially stark since Rafsanjani personally enjoyed good relations with many Arab leaders and had played a key role in the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement in the years after the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Indeed, rulers …

Al-Arabia – If Donald Trump preserves the Iran nuclear deal, that will surprise many Iranians. AUTHOR Barbara Slavin That’s one finding of a new poll by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) & IranPoll.com, which have repeatedly surveyed Iranian public opinion in recent years. Of 1,000 Iranians polled from Dec. 10-24 last year, a month after Trump’s election, …