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Iranwire – The Sunni Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, Molavi Abdolhamid, has been a key dissenting voice inside Iran since the eruption of months-long nationwide protests against the Islamic Republic. Iran’s top Sunni cleric routinely uses his Friday sermons to denounce the deadly government crackdown on the protest movement and to criticize the policies of the country’s Shia clerical rulers, …

Iranwire – An Iranian protester who fell into a coma after being thrown from a window by security forces has died in hospital, activists say. The opposition activist collective 1500tasvir said that Hossein Al-Ali remained in a coma for a week before passing away on March 21. Al-Ali was rushed to hospital a week ago after security forces stormed the …

VOA — The U.S. military says it has carried out multiple “precision” airstrikes against targets in eastern Syria in response to a drone attack Thursday that killed a U.S. contractor. The Pentagon said the contractor was killed Thursday at a coalition base in northeast Syria in a strike by a one-way attack drone that the intelligence community assessed was “of Iranian …

CHRI – More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests that began in September 2022. As CHRI has noted, the announced pardons and sentence reductions are a political ploy aimed at covering …

Al-Monitor – A US judge ordered Iran on Wednesday to pay nearly $1.7 billion to the families of US soldiers killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing. The ruling may be appealed, but the order constitutes a legal setback for the Iranian government and could further damage US-Iran relations.  Background: Reuters reported that judge Loretta Preska in the US District Court in the Southern …