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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ghobad Khodakarami, a retired teacher sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Khorramabad Central Prison. According to HRANA news agency,  a man was executed in Khorramabad Central Prison on the morning of May 7. His identity has been reported as Ghobad Khodakarami who was sentenced to qisas for murder. An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Ghobad …

Al-Monitor – One week after a statement on the arrest of two Europeans, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry revealed the identities, nationality and details of what it claimed to be close surveillance of the two.   Aired by the conservative-controlled state television, the Intelligence Ministry’s video report referred to French citizens Cecile Kohler, 37, and Chuck Paris, 69, as “spies,” who landed in Tehran from …

Al-Monitor – Iran unveiled a factory in Tajikistan today that will produce drones.  The factory in the Tajik capital Dushanbe will manufacture Abagil 2 drones. Iranian military Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri attended the ceremony, reported the official Islamic Republic News Agency.  “We are in a position to apart from meeting our domestic need, we can export military equipment to …

Iranwire – At 2.50pm on Friday, May 13, an Iranian would-be internet user in Khuzestan opens up Google on their phone and types one innocuous word into the search bar: “Washington”. The search engine thinks about it a little while. Then they’re presented with the weak visual joke now familiar to Chrome users the world over, a dog-eared piece of …

Iranwire – At least five people have been named as killed by security forces since fresh protests broke out in Iran over government-imposed food price increases this month. Pictures of other, wounded people, including young children, have been posted online. On the evening of Sunday, May 15, many cities in the provinces of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were the scene …