Iran

Two Iranians diagnosed with coronavirus in Iran’s holy Shiite city of Qom died hours after the official announced that their tests were positive. 

Amnesty International has criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran for torturing prisoners and detainees, discrimination against Iranian women and religious minorities, and executing minors.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ head of intelligence reportedly offered 500 million toman to two agents to kill Kurdish activist Ali Javanmardi, said a report.

Iranian female political prisoner asked people in a joint statement to boycott parliamentary election scheduled for this week.

Department of Social Studies and Research Institute at Tehran University has conducted a poll that resulted in less than 25 percent of the capital’s population saying they will vote in the coming parliamentary election this week.

Iran’s hardliners are expected to tighten the control of the country in the upcoming parliamentary election amid diplomatic, political, and economic crisis in Iran, Reuters reported.

Iranian foreign minister Mohamad Javad Zarif claimed on Saturday that the Islamic regime of his country will not collapse by US’s “maximum pressure” campaign.

A classified document received by Avatoday shows that during Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) Iranian regime had used the blood of prisoners sentenced to death for treating injured Iranian soldiers.

The US Justice Department has accused China’s Huawei Technologies of helping Iranian regime tracking protesters during the anti-regime demonstrations in 2009 in Tehran.

Iranian people on Tuesday boycotted 41th anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution amid increasing tensions in the country.