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VOA – Britain’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told somber lawmakers Monday in a packed House of Commons that Britain was looking to help shape a European-led naval protection mission in the Strait of Hormuz following Friday’s seizing of a British-flagged oil tanker in the gulf. Hunt surprised some lawmakers by refraining from imposing sanctions on Iran for seizing the British-flagged …

Radiozamaneh – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sent back to Evin Prison on 21 July after six days of stay at the Psychiatric ward of Imam Khomeini hospital. She was chained to the bed and the IRGC intelligence branch was guarding her during her medical stay. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe with their child in a visit to Iran “Nazanin has been …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Diplomatic efforts notwithstanding, the free world must realize that the threat posed by a nuclear Iran would be different from any other nation obtaining such weapons. At the very least, Iran, once it had both nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them, would not even have to use them: the threat to do so would be sufficient …

CHRI – Imprisoned for more than 25 years, Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Nazari has been denied hospitalization to receive tests for a tumor in his stomach, his lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 19, 2019.  “Sometime ago, Mohammad started having really bad coughs,” said attorney Mohammad Hossein Aghasi. “A month and a half ago, at …

CHRI – IRIB’s New Job Posting Demands New Hires Be Male, Muslim and Without Disability In its latest job posting, the Iranian state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), listed “complete health and lack of physical disability” and “adherence to Islam and Velayat-e faqih [Iran’s system of clerical rule over the state]” as employment requirements for all its …