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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least one man has been executed for drug-related charges in Karaj Penitentiary. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least one man was executed in Karaj Penitentiary (Central Prison) on 22 October. His identity has been established as Khosro Naghiani who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court. …

CHRI – The sentencing of two women journalists in Iran, Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who have been detained in Iran for over a year, to long prison sentences for reporting on the death in state custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, underscores the use of the judiciary in Iran as nothing more than a tool of the state’s repressive apparatus, …

iranintl – Leaders of Iran’s ultra-hardliner Paydari (Steadfastness) Party have been conspicuously silent about the war in Gaza despite being vocal about domestic issues. The secretary general of the party, Sadegh Mahsouli, and the chairman of the party’s central council, Morteza Aghatehrani, have not made any public comments about the war raging in the Middle East. Considering that they are …

iranintl – Despite close political relations with China, Iran has been largely left out of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and other regional investments, amid US sanctions. China is connected to Southeast and South Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Africa, and Europe through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive global infrastructural project. With the purpose of strengthening …

iranintl – While Iran continues to deny its involvement, Liam Fox, the former UK defense secretary, has accused Iran of orchestrating its proxy Hamas’s war on Israel. “If the fingers on the trigger were Hamas’s, the strings were being pulled from Tehran,” he said, calling for the UK to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) which controls Iran’s many …