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VOA – Iran has executed a British Iranian national. Ali Reza Akbari was a former Iranian deputy defense minister and had been charged with spying for Britain. On Saturday, Iran’s Mizan news agency announced Akbari’s hanging death, but it was not immediately clear when the execution took place. He was arrested in 2019. Britain and the U.S. had urged Iran …

Al-Arabia – An explosion suspected to have been caused by a gas leak at a building in northwestern Iran killed six members of the same family, state media said Friday. The blast hit a residential building in Bukan, a Kurdish-majority city in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, on Thursday night, the official news agency IRNA reported. “So far, the …

RFL/RE – The Iranian government has presented a draft budget plan for the next Persian year with a significant increase in the budget of military, security, and propaganda institutions. According to the bill, published on January 11, the budget of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will increase by 28 percent, while the budget for state radio and television will rise by …

Iranwire – Days after Charlie Hebdo published caricatures of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, officials in Iran continue to fume against the French satirical magazine as well as France’s government itself. The cartoons were published in last week’s issue as part of a competition launched in support of the women-led protests that have rocked Iran for nearly four months. …

Iranwire – Iranian courts have handed down death sentences against at least four ethnic Baluch men over the past few days, activists say, as the Islamic republic tries to suppress an anti-government protest movement that has swept the country for nearly four months. According to the latest information available, the authorities have executed 151 Baluch citizens in 2022, compared to …