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Al-Monitor — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian traveled to Moscow on Tuesday to attend a four-way meeting with his Syrian, Turkish and Russian counterparts in a summit hosted by the Kremlin.  Prior to the Iranian minister’s departure, the spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, told reporters in Tehran that the Iranian side is pushing to “bridge differences” between Syria and Turkey …

Iranwire – The UN human rights office has called for a halt in executions in Iran, where it said 209 people were executed so far this year amid continuing protests against the country’s clerical establishment. “The UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk today expressed dismay at the frighteningly high number of executions this year in Iran,” Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing …

Irabwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the Iranian authorities to immediately release a journalist who was arrested last week on unknown charges amid a crackdown on dissent and the media. “Iranian authorities must free journalist Sajjad Shahrabi immediately and unconditionally and cease the practice of arbitrarily locking up members of the press,” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de …

Iranwire – During at least three months after the nationwide protests started with the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police, international media outlets published pictures of women who cut off their hair and threw it to the ground or hanged their headscarves on sticks and burned them as a symbol of subjugation and misogyny. From the …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have filed legal cases against two more actresses who recently appeared in public without wearing the mandatory headscarf, local media reported, the latest in a series of similar indictments against celebrities in the country. Baran Kosari, 37, attended the funeral of actor Hesam Mahmoudi without a headscarf on May 5, Tasnim news agency reported, adding that …