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VOA – Iranian American Sanaz Toossi won the Pulitzer Prize in drama Monday for her play English. The play takes place in 2008 near Tehran, where four Iranian adults prepare for an English proficiency test. It examines how family separation and travel restrictions push them to learn a new language and how that may change their identity. The Pulitzer board called …

VOA – Jordan carried out rare airstrikes on southern Syria on Monday, hitting an Iran-linked drugs factory and killing a smuggler allegedly behind big hauls across the two countries’ border, local and intelligence sources said. The sources said one strike hit an abandoned drug facility in Syria’s southern Daraa province linked to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is allied …

CHRI—The execution of three men over the last three days in Iran—two men for “insulting the prophet” and an Iranian-born Swedish citizen and dissident who was abducted in Turkey by Iranian agents—continues the intensifying use of the death penalty to silence dissent in the Islamic Republic. In just the past 10 days, 42 people, including 22 Baluchi citizens, have been …

Iranwire – The Tehran Municipality has installed billboards in the city accusing the hundreds of protesters who were targeted in the eyes by security forces during nationwide protests of being “liars.” Doctors said that at least 580 protesters had sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas canisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles in Tehran and in …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Islamic Republic’s Judiciary reported the execution of Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare for offences against religion including “blasphemy” and “insulting the prophet.” Emphasising the inhumanity of the death penalty, Iran Human Rights strongly condemns its use against freedom of expression and beliefs, and calls on the international community for an urgent and serious response. …