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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Danesh Salari, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Kahnuj Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Kahnuj Prison on 19 June. His identity has been reported as 24-year-old Danesh Salari from Koulgan village in Roudbar. He was arrested for murder around three years ago in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The world isn’t running out of oil and alternative energies remain more of a promise…. The latest use of oil as a political weapon has come with the embargo imposed by Western powers on Russia. This time, too, the politicization of oil has led to unintended, but no less political, consequences. Russia is forced to sell its oil …

RFL/RE – Senior Iranian intelligence and security officials met last week in the northeastern religious city of Mashhad to discuss a coordinated strategy to counter what state media described as “plots” by the country’s “enemies.”The June 15 meeting, which was not reported by state media until a week later with no explanation, appeared to be intended to increase cooperation between …

RFL/RE – A number of Iranian activists and rights group have come out in support of protesting students at Tehran’s University of Art, warning them against increasing enforcement of dress codes, especially head scarves for women, across the country. The activists said in a statement titled “The voice of society’s majority to the entire system of the Islamic republic” that …

RFL/RE – The trial of Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested during nationwide anti-government protests in November, has been conducted behind closed doors, his legal representatives have disclosed. Representatives from the parliaments of Germany, Austria, New Zealand, and Italy, who have become Salehi’s political sponsors, announced on June 22 that the court proceedings concerning the singer’s charges were held …