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London, 1 October – In his September 29 article for the Wall Street Journal, Yaroslav Trofimov writes that, “From the point of view of Sunni Arab regimes anxious about Iran’s regional ambitions, Islamic State—as repellent as it is—provides a silver lining. The extremist group’s firewall blocks territorial contiguity between Iran and its Arab proxies in Syria and Lebanon.”
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London, 1 October –Thursday morning, September 29, another woman was hanged. The number of women executed under the regime of President Rouhani has now risen to 71.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Women’s Committee reports that Molouk Noori was executed along with seven other prisoners in the Central Prison of Orumiyeh (northwestern Iran). She had been held in the women’s ward of Orumiyeh Prison.
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London, 1 October – In his article for Al Arabiya, on Friday, September 30, Masoud Alzahid writes about a theme park, now open for its second year in Iran’s city of Mashhad.
Billed as the “park of the revolution’s children,” it is a place where children are trained to shoot virtual fixed and moving targets that carry the flags of countries viewed as Iran’s enemies, including the United States and Israel.
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London, 29 Sep – Amnesty International have criticized the Iranian Regime’s decision to jail a critically ill human rights advocate.
Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years in prison in May and this was upheld upon appeal.
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London, 29 Sep – Reports have surfaced that conditions in a Southern Iranian prison are failing to meet even basic sanitary requirements.
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London, 29 Sep – Iranian political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, is being put under increased pressure by the Iranian authorities according to recently released reports.
Akbari Monfared, who is held in the women’s ward in Evin Prison, was transferred to Ward 209 for interrogation in late September.
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London, 29 Sep – On Wednesday, September 28, nine prisoners were hanged at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
This mass execution was carried out inside the prison and the charges are unknown.
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Washington, 29 Sep – A leading Iranian-American political scientist has written an op-ed for The World Post regarding the resolution by the US Congress to condemn the 1988 Iranian massacre of 30,000 political prisoners and call for justice.
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London, 29 Sep – A former chancellor at Tehran University has called for justice for the political prisoners who were murdered by the Iranian Regime during the 1988 massacre.
Dr. Mohammad Maleki, who was the first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 revolution, made a speech calling for an international trial of the Iranian Regime, speaking of the injustice doled out in Iranian prisons and the hypocrisy of current Justice minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi.
