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Iranwire – More than 150 professors and other academic staff at an Iranian university are calling on the authorities to allow banned students back to class, amid a fierce state crackdown on nationwide protests that have rocked the country for 2 ½ months. The academic staff at Gilan University, in the northern city of Rasht, said in an open letter …

Iranwire – Iranian police arrested a member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority on Tuesday and took him to an unknown location, IranWire understands.  Armed forces raided the workplace and home of Homayoun Khanlori, a business owner and theater actor, in the northern city of Rasht. Agents confiscated Khanlori’s personal electronic devices before then detaining him.  Khanlori owns a company selling and installing …

VOA – With major street protests erupting in Iran and China in recent weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is facing questions about its response to the unrest roiling two of the most significant U.S. adversaries. To date, the administration’s responses to events in both China and Iran have been mostly measured, though distinct. In the case of Iran, where …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – UN experts including four Special Rapporteurs, have today called for the immediate release of prominent human rights defender, Arash Sadeghi who suffers from a rare type of bone cancer and has been deprived of his medication since his arrest in October. Noting that Arash Sadeghi’s case is not an islolated one, the experts also expressed …

Al-Monitor – Iran and Iraq signed an export agreement today.  Iran signed a $4 billion contract related to the export of technical and engineering services with Iraq. The purpose of the agreement is to make up for the decrease in Iranian non-electricity exports to Iraq. From March to November of this year, such exports decreased $1.4 billion to $4.7 billion. The reason …