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CHRI – Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh. Iranian poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and …

PayvandNews – Iran’s crude steel exports are expected to reach a record high of 8 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2018). Mobarakeh steel plant in Isfahan, Iran (file photo by Islamic Republic News Agency) Head of the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO), Mehdi Karbasian, said the country exported 3.5 …

huffingtonpost -In the shadowy world of covert proxy wars, Iran is taking centre stage, both as a target and a player. A series of incidents involving Iranian ethnic and religious minorities raise the spectre of the United States and Saudi Arabia seeking to destabilize the Islamic republic. Not to sit back passively, indications are that Iran beyond its support for …

washingtonexaminer -On Oct. 21, Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a renowned expert on disaster medicine and resident of Sweden, was sentenced to death by the Iranian Revolutionary Court. Tehran prosecutor Abbas Dolatabadi accused Djalali of providing Mossad with the information about Iran’s nuclear sites that led to the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in 2010-2012. Accusations of working for Israel and the …

Independent – Boris Johnson has finally condemned Iran’s detention of British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and offered to visit her in prison. The Foreign Secretary has been criticised for refusing to condemn the jailing of the charity worker, who has been held since her arrest by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in April 2016. But, speaking to a committee of MPs, Mr Johnson attacked both Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s …