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Today, while Hamid Noury, a former prison guard stood trial before the Swedish Justice system, Iranians and relatives of the massacred political prisoners in 1988 in Iran, held a demonstration in Stockholm and called for the trial of the regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, president Ebrahim Raisi and Chief Justice Mohseni Ejei for committing genocide and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n
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Assembly of Experts Chair’s Remarks Caused Serious Reactions Inside the Regime<\/h3>\n
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“While Jannati’s recent remarks can be simply ignored but one has to ask: “What is your role in this? Which part of the state is to blame for this situation? Don’t we have to hold a group of officials, with specific names and titles, accountable for this?” the state-run Hamedli newspaper wrote on March 9.<\/p>\n
The daily added: “Jannati, as an influential cleric in the government and among the Iranian clergy, has had unparalleled power and influence for fourteen years in approving the qualifications of those at the highest levels of law-making and expanding the cultural and political discourse of the Islamic Republic. What role does he play? And how much of the burden does he take on himself? After all, where and which part of the pillars of the Islamic Republic’s system had fundamental flaws so that in such a rich country, we are failing to still people’s hunger?”<\/p>\n
Discussing economic hardship at the beginning of the two-day session of the Assembly of Experts on March 8, Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts\u00a0had said<\/a>: “We have done miracles if we can feed people’s hungry stomachs.”<\/p>\nHis remarks have awakened lots of criticism on Persian-speaking media, even on state-run publications.<\/p>\n
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The Asian Football Confederation suspended the professional licensing committee of the regime’s football federation. The AFC announced that the ban would continue until all problems that it previously has reported to Tehran were resolved. Iranian teams are excluded from the AFC club competition this season for failing to meet club licensing criteria. Throughout the years, the Asian Football Confederation has repeatedly warned the regime’s Football Federation about the state officials’ interference and political decision-making in the sport.<\/p>\n
\nUPDATE: 2:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\nInstagram Suspends Iranian Officials’ Pages<\/h3>\n
Mehdi Salem, head of the Ministry of Communications\u2019 public relations center wrote on Twitter: “A few minutes ago, the Instagram page of the Minister of Communications, Mr. Zarehpour, has been made unavailable.”<\/p>\n
According to Salem, since yesterday, access to the page of government spokesman Bahador Jahromi had been blocked by Instagram.<\/p>\n
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For reasons that are still unclear, the Biden administration has long sought to revive the failed Obama-era 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Reports suggest an agreement is imminent, with the lead Russian negotiator in the talks saying Russia and China teamed up and “Iran got much more than it could expect. Much more.” Whether that is an exaggeration or not, removing sanctions and allowing the sale of Iranian oil across the globe would be a massive victory for Tehran \u2014 and a massive loss for the U.S.<\/p>\n![\"YouTube](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FYIj0LpdVayc%2F0.jpg\")