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RFL/RE – Russia and Iran are moving forward on plans to establish a factory in Russia aimed at producing some 6,000 Iran-designed drones of the type Moscow has used in the Ukraine war, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited officials in a U.S.-aligned country. Moscow and Tehran seek to produce a faster drone to better challenge Ukrainian air defenses, …

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have detained a journalist at a reformist publication, local media reported on February 5, as her sister, also a journalist, remains in custody after reporting on Mahsa Amini’s death. Elnaz Mohammadi, a reporter for reformist newspaper Hammihan, was detained at the Evin prosecutor’s office in Tehran after she had gone there “for an explanation,” reported Shargh, …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities are accusing four jailed members of the country’s Teachers Union of “acting against internal security,” “disturbing public order and peace” and “disobeying an officer while on duty,” as the Islamic Republic continues to clamp down on protests that have rocked the country for more than four months. The Revolutionary Court in the southern city of Bushehr …

Iranwire – Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, who faces possible prison time for a song that has become an anthem to the protest movement that has swept his country for more than four months, has won a Grammy award. Addressing the Grammy ceremony in Los Angeles, Jill Biden, the wife of US President Joe Biden, announced that Hajipour won the Grammy’s …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced journalist Masoud Kurdpour to 17 months in prison in an online court hearing, and detained another reporter, Elnaz Mohammadi, for unknown reasons. Dozens of journalists have been detained since nationwide protests against Iran’s clerical establishment erupted across the country in the middle of September 2022. Some of them have been released. Others have been summoned, …