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Iran-HRM – The Court of Appeal has confirmed prison sentence against a young woman, who was arrested during the December/January Iran uprising.

RFL/RE – An Iranian diplomat arrested in Germany is the suspected mastermind of a thwarted attack on Iranians living in exile in France, German prosecutors said on July 11. Assadollah Assadi, 46, who was based in Austria, was arrested in the southern German state of Bavaria on July 1 and remains in German custody. He is suspected of passing a …

VOA — The United States and the United Arab Emirates have broken up a network funneling illicit funds to Iran as Washington steps up a drive to restrict Iranian trade and access to hard currency in the region, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

VOA – An Israeli general says his nation’s recent strikes on Iranian forces in Syria have left Iran far from cementing a presence there but also have left Israel needing support to end that presence completely.

HRW – Iranian state television on July 9, 2018, broadcasted apologies by several women who were briefly detained in May for posting videos of themselves dancing on their popular Instagram accounts, Human Rights Watch said today. On the same day, Shaparak Shajarizadeh, who took her headscarf off in public in January to protest compulsory hijab laws, announced on her Instagram page that a court …