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Iranwire – Images of the body of a young man who had been shot in the head on October 8, 2022, from a distance of half a meter, were quickly shared on social media. He was behind the wheel of a green Kia Pride on Bahman 6th Street in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan province, when his car was …

VOA – An Iranian journalist handed a two-year jail sentence after interviewing the father of the woman whose custody death sparked months of protests said Sunday she had been released from prison. After her release from Tehran’s Evin prison, Nazila Maroufian defiantly posted a picture of herself on social media without a headscarf, flouting the Islamic republic’s strict dress code …

VOA – A gunman opened fire Sunday night at a prominent shrine in southern Iran, killing one person and wounding eight others in an attack that followed another assault there months earlier, authorities said. Officials offered no immediate motive for the attack in the city of Shiraz at Shah Cheragh, which draws Shiite pilgrims to its domed mosque and the …

RFL/RE – Western-backed maritime forces in the Middle East on August 12 warned shippers traveling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz to stay as far away from Iranian territorial waters as possible to avoid being seized. A similar warning went out earlier this year ahead of the seizure of two tankers traveling near the strait. While Iran and the United …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The continuing trend of broad expansions of presidential powers… is eroding the powers of the legislative branch. Constitutionally, the vital decisions of government were not to be decided by the stroke of a pen from the president, with no congressional action from the duly elected representatives of the people. By addressing the Iran nuclear deal that is not yet dead, …