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RFL/RE – Iran’s ballistic missile program must be placed under international surveillance, French President Emmanuel Macron said, in a bid to get tougher on Tehran while preserving the nuclear deal that Donald Trump has threatened to scrap.

Iran-HRM – Iran’s Security Force raided Baha’i individuals’ homes on Tuesday, February 13, arresting seven people and confiscating their belongings including laptops, mobile phones and books. Minu Riazati, Asadullah Jaberi, Ehteram Shakhi, Emad Jaberi, Farideh Jaberi, Lagha Faramarzi and puneh Nasheri were detained.

Iran HRM – In a February 12 voice recording sent out from The Great Tehran Penitentiary addressing political and human rights activists who asked Soheil Arabi to end his hunger strike, the political prisoner insisted on continuing his strike. Soheil Arabi stated “Ending my hunger strike means succumbing accepting punishments that I did not deserve, not even one day of it… I have …

Iran-HRM – At least six inmates were executed today in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj.

RFL/RE A referendum proposed by President Hassan Rohani to heal Iran’s divisions has been attacked by his hard-line opponents but provided an opening for establishment critics to go a step further. More than a dozen Iranian activists and intellectuals from inside the country and abroad quickly seized on the president’s tentative calls this week for the plebiscite, to ask for …