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Geopolitical winds raise Israel’s threat perception of Iran but major strike unlikely

Al-Arabia – Ahead of a military drill simulating war with Iran, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “I have a sharp, clear message for Iran and the international community: Israel will do what it must to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.” Much of the recent Israeli rhetoric on Iran has been a series of expressions of heightened concern …

RFL/RE – The head of the judiciary in Iran’s eastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province has told a local mosque it must provide proof to back up claims of an assassination attempt on the Sunni imam of Zahedan, Molavi Abdolhamid, or face legal consequences. Local news reports quoted sources recently as saying an intelligence operation by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had attempted the …

Iranwire – The life of Ali Rezaei, a 39-year-old yoga instructor and teacher of Turkish language, took a devastating turn on December 11, 2022, when security forces stormed his home in Mianeh in the north-western province of East Azarbaijan, seized his electronic devices and other personal belongings, and took him to custody. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Rezaei was transferred to Tehran’s …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced political activist Ahmedreza Haeri to three months and one day in prison on charges of “spreading lies,” local media reported. Branch 1040 of the Criminal Court in Tehran handed down the sentence in absentia on June 21, as Haeri was serving a previous conviction in Tehran’s Evin prison. The plaintiff in the latest case, the Tehran …

Iranwire – Active Islamic seminaries outnumber state-funded colleges by five to one in Iran, according to new research by Iran Open Data. Officially, at least 1,120 religious seminaries and specialized jurisprudential centers are engaged in activities and are planning to admit students during the upcoming academic year, the collaborative initiative said in a recent article. Meanwhile, official statistics show that …

iranintl – The secretary of the union of Iran’s university professors warned that the Interior…

iranintl – The Islamic Republic’s Education Minister is criticizing UNESCO’s 2030 Education Ag…

iranintl – The appointment of Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of President Ebrahim Raisi, to the …

iranintl – Iran retained its position as the second highest country to imprison writers amid t…

RFL/RE – An Iranian warship equipped with drones and missiles has crossed the equator into the…

VOA – Supporters of two U.S. nationals seen as unjustly imprisoned overseas are raising concer…

RFL/RE – Iran has released the crew of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel but r…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s Encirclement of Israel, Control of Red Sea, Almost Compl…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Sohrab Rafieian and Morteza Azimi, two co-defendants on death row…

iranintl – High-ranking officials from the US treasury will travel to Singapore and Malaysia n…

iranintl – Just over two weeks have passed since Israel conducted its surgical strike against …

iranintl – Israel is building a “cyber dome” to counter online threats, in particu…

iranintl – Since the Mahsa protests, Iran’s courts have prosecuted dozens of individuals…

iranintl – US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine) urged the Biden ad…

iranintl – Despite recent public outcry and opposition to the construction of a mosque in one …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executed Anwar Khezri, a Kurdis…

Iranwire – The start of a new crackdown on women in Iran and the deployment of morality police…

Iranwire – Saeed Mousanejad, a master’s student entering his first year at Tehran Univer…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Never before have sanctions been so ostentatiously disregarded withou…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nasir Hariri, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

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