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Amnesty – The Iranian authorities are waging a ruthless campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of protesters and bystanders unlawfully killed by security forces during the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising to force them into staying silent ahead of the one-year anniversary of the nationwide protests and the killings of their loved ones. The authorities have subjected bereaved relatives …

iranintl – Iran’s minister of intelligence Esmail Khatib said Sunday that secret services are holding “spies from Sweden, France and Britain,” referring to some Western hostages. Without providing names or details about the detainees, the intelligence minister even claimed that despite foreign pressures some of the “spies have been executed.” Iran executed Iranian-Swedish political activist and former leader of the Arab …

iranintl – Hardliners hold such a strong sway within Iran’s regime that media discuss their intentions to seize control of the political system for the upcoming decade. They have almost been in total control of the presidential administration since 2021, while also holding the majority of seats in the parliament (Majles) following the controversial elections of 2020, when no moderate …

iranintl – A former IRGC general says the revolutionary guards knew about the plans to seize the US Embassy in Tehran two days before the attack on the compound in 1979. Mohsen Rafighdoost was in charge of the Revolutionary Guard’s Logistics when he says he was told that a group of students were going to storm the US embassy in …

iranintl – Intriguing figures released this week in Iran reveal that over the past decade the government has spent more than $100 billion from the national reserve fund. Local media reported the disclosure by the Iranian parliament’s research center on Friday, illustrating that as stringent international sanctions struck Iran during 2011-2012, the administration of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad initiated withdrawals …