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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 …

Iranwire – An Iranian opposition activist who US authorities said was the target of two thwarted kidnapping or murder plots urged a federal judge in New York on Friday to hand a tough prison sentence to a woman who unwittingly funded one of the planned attacks. Masih Alinejad, a onetime Iranian journalist, said her sense of safety has been shattered …

Iranwire – The head of Iran’s judiciary has again threatened to punish women and girls who don’t abide to mandatory hijab rules, claiming that some of them cooperate foreign spy services. In a speech on April 6, chief justice Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei warned that measures will be implemented to “tackle social deviance.” However, he underscored “the importance of distinguishing between those …

Iranwire – France’s foreign minister has urged Iran to release French nationals ” arbitrarily” incarcerated in Iran during a rare face-to-face meeting with her Iranian counterpart in Beijing. Catherine Colonna, who traveled with President Emmanuel Macron on his state visit to China, met Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on April 6. Amir-Abdollohian was leading the Iranian delegation in reconciliation talks in the Chinese capital between …