Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari on 20 May 2019.

By Mohammad Sadat Khansari

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on Sunday sentenced four men affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) to prison and or death.

Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court headed by notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced 34-year-old Abdullah Ghasempour to death and eight years behind bars on charges including “waging war on God,” “assembly and collusion,” and “membership in the MEK.”

Written by Shahriar Kia on 20 May 2019.

By Shahriar Kia

U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken very openly about this disdain of the Iranian regime. He criticised the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and promised to withdraw from it, even before taking office, and emphasised his belief that the Iranian regime presents a much bigger threat than many realise.

Written by Sedighe Shahrokhi on 20 May 2019.

By Sedighe Shahrokhi

Iranian political prisoner Akbar Bagheri has started a hunger strike to protest his abrupt transfer from Tehran's Evin Prison to the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary.

Bagheri began the hunger strike on Wednesday, May 15. He is now on a dry hunger strike demanding he be transferred back from the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary.

Written by Mahmoud Hakamian on 19 May 2019.

By Mahmoud Hakamian

Every year in Iran, business people flock to conferences organized by affiliates of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). Although it is very likely that they are being surveilled, scouted for intelligence value, or even recruited by one of the most active terror organizations in the world, respected executives French or German multinational corporations attend these conferences because the IRGC controls oil wells worth billions of euros.

Written by Mansoureh Galestan on 18 May 2019.

By Mansoureh Galestan

Iran regime’s lawmakers have been seeking to amend the country’s Code of Criminal Procedure. The proposed amendment would allow judicial and prosecution officials to deny certain detainees the right to access to a lawyer while an investigation against them is open.

The Iranian regime’s legal and judicial parliamentary commission finalised the draft amendment at the beginning of last week and it will be voted upon in the imminent future.

Written by Amir Taghati on 18 May 2019.

Amir Taghati

The Iranian Regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including two Saudi ships off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, according to a Norwegian insurers’ report seen by Reuters.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Norway are investigating the attacks, which also hit a UAE- and a Norwegian-flagged vessel.