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Iran court sentences two to death over deadly shrine attack reuters – DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) – An Iranian court has handed out death sentences to two men over an attack on a Shi’ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 people in October and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, the official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. …

Al-Arabia – Iran has reportedly agreed to cease covert weapons shipments to the Houthi militia in Yemen as part of the China-brokered agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing US and Saudi officials. Saudi Arabia and Iran announced last week that they had reached an agreement, brokered by China, …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces re-arrested well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan overnight, hours after she was released from more than four years in prison. After her release on March 15, Qoliyan posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei outside Tehran’s Evin prison. “Khamenei the Zahhak! We’ll take you …

Iranwire – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the Tehran Province Journalists Association (TPJA), are calling on the Iranian authorities to free all journalists and media workers imprisoned in the country for simply doing their job and stop the ongoing crackdown on the media. The IFJ and the TPJA said in a statement on March 16 that 15 journalists …

Iranwire – Iranian border guards have killed at least 11 Afghans who had illegally crossed into Iran, reports say. The carnage happened on March 11, when the border guards opened fire on a group of Afghan migrants who tried to reach the border town of Saravan in Sistan and Baluchistan province. The Baloch Activists Campaign, which covers news in the …