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VOA – As schools in Iran reopen after the new year holiday, female students are again being targeted by chemical attacks. It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the poisonings, but some Iranians suspect that their own government is the likely culprit. The attacks have targeted schools across the country and students are poisoned by unknown substances that …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR while expressing support for the forty-five day hunger strike of of human rights activist Mr. Vahid Beheshti, the director of the popular news channel, DorrTV, outside of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, urged the British government as soon as possible and before Mr. Vahid Beheshti’s health suffers irreversible risks, to succumb to …

Al-Arabia – Azerbaijan and Iran said on Saturday their top diplomats spoke over the phone, two days after Baku expelled four Iranian diplomats amid heightened tensions between the two neighboring countries. According to Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a “detailed discussion … regarding the existing dissatisfaction and misunderstandings between the two …

iranintl.com – The UN special rapporteur on Iran has expressed solidarity with the Iranian hunger striker who has camped outside the British Foreign Office for 44 days. Javaid Rehman, the UN human rights rapporteur, Friday visited Vahid Beheshti who has been campaigning for the UK to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Beheshti has been battling the bitter winter outside …

Al-Monitor – The US Navy deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Middle East waters via the Suez Canal, a spokesperson revealed Saturday. The Pentagon’s rare disclosure of the location of one of its Ohio-class submarines came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran after an American military contractor was killed by a drone attack …