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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hossein Ordukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmoudabad, Milad Ashrafi Atbatan and Manouchehr Bejandi have been executed for security-related charges including collaborating with Israeli intelligence services, in Rajai Shahr Prison. They were executed within seven months of arrest. Stressing its opposition to the cruel and inhumane death penalty punishment, Iran Human Rights condemns its use for all charges …

Al-Monitor — Iran’s state-run Al-Alam news network dismissed reports that the Islamic Republic’s controversial morality police, in charge of implementing mandatory hijab rules, has been abolished.   Al-Alam was addressing extensive coverage of remarks by Iran’s hard-line Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, who appeared to suggest that hijab police was no longer operating.   “The morality police has been closed down by the very institution [Interior …

Al-Arabia – Protesters in Iran called on Sunday a three-day strike this week as they seek to maintain pressure on authorities over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, with protests planned on the day President Ebrahim Raisi is due to address students in Tehran.Raisi is expected to visit Tehran University on Wednesday, celebrated in Iran as Student Day. To …

RFL/RE – Iran has cancelled its dreaded “morality police” in the wake of continuing protests following the September death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the country’s chief prosecutor has said. Iran’s state IRNA news agency on December 4 quoted Mohammad Jafar Montazeri as saying, “the morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary.” Montazeri was responding to the question …

RFL/RE – Iran has begun construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country’s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the United States over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the Islamic republic’s nuclear deal with world powers. The new 300-megawatt plant, known as Karoon, will take eight years to build and cost around $2 …