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RFL/RE – Iran has reportedly arrested nine more members of the Baha’i faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim community, shutting down and confiscating more than 40 pharmacies and warehouses belonging to the detainees. The Intelligence Ministry of the Islamic republic announced on August 13 that a Baha’i family and its associates, who were involved in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic business, have been …

Iranwire – The government of President Ebrahim Raisi has repeatedly talked about $7 billion of funds frozen in South Korea because of US sanctions, but it was announced last week that, as part of a prisoner exchange deal between the Islamic Republic and the United States, $6 billion of these assets would be made available for Iran to buy humanitarian …

Iranwire – Ahead of the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death on September 16, there has been a notable escalation in the pressure being exerted on the families of the protesters killed by security forces.  Amir, the father of Mehrshad Shahidi, a 19-year-old man who lost his life in the central city of Arak in October 2022 after having been …

Iranwire – Saman Pashaei, an Iranian university lecturer who has been in detention for more than a month, is facing intense pressure to confess to crimes he has not committed, his brother says. Pashaei, who is also a former member of the national wrestling team, was arrested on July 2 by agents of the Saqqez Intelligence Department and held incommunicado …

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 …