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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 …

RFL/RE – The sister of Mujahed Korkor, an Iranian protester facing the threat of execution in the southwestern city of Izeh, has gone missing after his family home was raided twice by the Iranian security forces. Reports of the raids on the Instagram account of Yasna Bakhtiari, another of Korkor’s sisters, said security forces raided the house on June 21, engaged in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Since the Biden Administration assumed office, the Iranian regime has been steadily gaining more power, funds, and becoming more emboldened to export weapons, advance its nuclear program, deepen its presence in Latin America, and spread its radical Islamist ideology around the globe. Iran has also become key exporter of weapons to Russia. Last week it was reported that …

Iranwire – Peaceful protests in multiple cities across the south-eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan took a violent turn after security forces intervened to disperse the demonstrators. Ethnic Baluch protesters took to the streets of the provincial capital, Zahedan, and other cities including Iranshahr, Rask, Chabahar and Saravan after Friday prayers on June 23, calling for the overthrow of …

VOA —Iranian American activists who staged a rare sit-in outside the State Department to oppose potential U.S. monetary incentives to Iran to slow the progress of the Iranian nuclear program say they are optimistic about a dialogue they started with the Biden administration. In a statement sent to VOA on Friday, the nonpartisan and nonprofit National Solidarity Group for Iran …