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Iran Journalist Claims Asylum in Sweden After Fleeing FM’s Delegation
- Thursday, August 29, 2019
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By Pooya Stone 8 AUGUST 2019- An Iranian journalist covering the Nordic trip of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif fled the delegation and applied for asylum in Sweden, according to Swedish officials on Tuesday. The Swedish Migration Agency reported that Amir-Tohid Fazel, an editor at Iran’s ultra-conservative news agency Moj, “applied...
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Iran Hangs 94th Woman During Rouhani Presidency
- Thursday, August 29, 2019
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By Pooya Stone 27 AUGUST 2019-Iran executed a woman on Sunday in Mashhad, according to the state-run ROKNA news agency. The unnamed woman, who was supposedly found guilty of murder, was hanged at dawn on August 25 in the Central Prison of Mashhad. She was the 94th woman executed in Iran since...
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Iran Admits Christianity Is Growing Despite Repression
- Sunday, May 12, 2019
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By Pooya Stone The Iranian Intelligence Minister has publically admitted for the first time that Christianity is spreading throughout Iran. During a speech to several Shia Muslim clerics, Mahmoud Alavi said that “Christianity is spreading in parts of Iran”, but tried to dismiss the converts because they were ordinary Iranians “whose...
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Iran: Human Right Situation Is Still a Major Concern
- Sunday, April 28, 2019
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Iran is one of the few countries in the world that carries out executions in public – a practice that is ordered by the authorities and a practice that human rights organisations have constantly criticised. April 25: Iran Human Rights (IHR) has published its 11th annual report on the death...
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