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RFL/RE – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said his country is indifferent to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, saying Tehran has witnessed hostility from both Democrats and Republicans. “We don’t mourn or celebrate because [the results] make no difference to us,” Khamenei said in a November 16 speech in the central city of Isfahan. “We are …

RFL/RE – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to renew a decades-old Iran sanctions law and impose new sanctions on supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The legislation passed quickly on a 419-1 vote, showing broad support on Capitol Hill for maintaining economic pressure on Tehran and punishing backers of the Syrian government. The bills were sponsored …

alarabiya -Commander of Iran’s Basij forces Mohammad Reza Naghdi has said that the United States will collapse in less than 20 years and that President-elect Donald Trump will speed up the process. “According to the analysis made by the behind-the-stage and shadow decision-makers of the establishment in the US, the United States will collapse in 2035 and I think that …

alarabiya -A UN committee on Tuesday urged Iran to cease enforced disappearances and the widespread use of arbitrary detention and has expressed serious concern about severe limitations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief. The General Assembly’s human rights committee approved the measure by a vote of 85 in favor, 35 against and 63 countries abstaining. The assembly …

Iran Human Rights -Iranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners. Eight of the prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges. On the morning of Sunday November 13, three unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rasht’s Lakan Prison (Gilan province, northern Iran) and six prisoners were reportedly hanged at Urmia’s Darya Prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran). According to the …