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VOA – Iran says it has released a retired Canadian-Iranian professor, who had been detained on “security charges.” A foreign ministry spokesman, quoted by the official IRNA news agency, said Homa Hoodfar was released on humanitarian grounds. Hoodfar, 65, who most recently taught at Concordia University in Montreal, was arrested June 6 after a visit to Evin prison in Tehran. …

RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad not to run for president in an election scheduled for next year. Iran’s IRNA state news agency reported on September 26 that Khamenei told Ahmadinejad that it “is not in his interest or that of the country” for him to run again. The staunchly conservative …

HRANA News Agency – Mohammadreza Farahnak, a prisoner who has been kept on charge of theft in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj since 18 years ago, after all these years faces the risk of amputation. The prisoner was informed that the sentence would be executed on Tuesday. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohammadreza Farahnak, …

Iran Human Rights – Seven prisoners in Minab Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran) are in imminent danger of execution. Seven prisoners in Minab Prison were reportedly transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday September 25 in preparation for their executions. According to close sources, the seven prisoners, who range from ages 25 to 30, are on death row for drug related offenses. …

lobelog – The war in Syria is a nightmare. It’s a nightmare for all the civilians who suffer from constant aerial bombardment, who are trapped without food and medical assistance inside crumbling cities, who experience the retribution of either the Islamic State or the regime in Damascus. It’s a nightmare for those who try to escape and face the prospect of …