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Iran-HRM – Arshia Takdastan is an 18-year-old citizen from Nowshahr, north of Iran. Arshia was born on June 13, 2004. He was accepted to the national entrance exam in electronic engineering and was scheduled to go to university from September 24, 2022. But the Revolutionary Guards-IRGC’s intelligence agents arrested him on their way to class at Nowshahr’s Azadi Square. Iran’s …

CHRI – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of recently released detained protesters, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today, which Iranian authorities have labelled “suicides” despite significant evidence indicating otherwise. “We are seeing a number of suspicious deaths of released detainees who were clearly tortured while in state custody, …

Al-Monitor – Chinese hacking group Playful Taurus aimed cyber attacks at Iranian government platforms from July to December of 2022, according to a report published Wednesday by American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks. The company’s analysis suggests that four entities of the Iranian government’s infrastructure have been compromised by what is known as an advanced persistent threat (APT), or cyberattack campaign with the goal to mine …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s armed forces general staff, which coordinates activities between its conventional army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), warned the European Union on Thursday not to list the elite force as a terrorist entity, state media reported. On Wednesday, the European Parliament called for the EU to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization, blaming it for …

RFL/RE – An Iranian man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public in a so-called “honor killing.” Mona Heidari, 17, was killed last year in February by her husband, Sajjad Heidarnava, and his brother Heydar in Ahvaz, the capital of the southwestern Khuzestan province.After the gruesome killing, video footage …