{"id":333175,"date":"2025-06-20T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=333175"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:16:49","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-june-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 June 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stuttgart rally condemns the Iranian\u2019s regime and demands abolition of death sentences for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h3>\n

UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treasury Targets Entities Procuring Sensitive Machinery for Iran\u2019s Defense Industry<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating one individual and eight entities, and identifying one vessel as blocked property, for their involvement in the procurement and transshipment of sensitive machinery for Iran\u2019s defense industry.\u00a0 The vessel,\u00a0SHUN KAI XING<\/strong>, owned by Hong Kong-based\u00a0Unico Shipping Co Ltd<\/strong>, was carrying this machinery for OFAC-designated\u00a0Rayan Roshd Afzar Company<\/a>\u00a0(RRA) and\u00a0Towse Sanaye Nim Resanaye Tarashe<\/strong>, a company controlled by RRA executives.\u00a0 Today\u2019s action is being taken in furtherance of\u00a0National Security Presidential Memorandum-2<\/a>, which directs that Iran be denied the development of missiles and other weapons capabilities and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its surrogates be disrupted, degraded, or denied access to the resources that sustain their destabilizing activities.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

4 Decades of Resistance for Freedom by Generation Equality in Iran<\/h3>\n

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June 20 marks the beginning of the Iranian people\u2019s resistance for freedom and democracy in 1981. Iran\u2019s women pioneer their people\u2019s movement against the mullahs\u2019 religious dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Generation Equality has been playing a significant role in the Iranian people\u2019s resistance for freedom from the Shah\u2019s time until today. Women who sacrificed their lives for freedom in the 1970s opened the way for women\u2019s largescale participation in the movement. Then came\u00a0another generation of women in the 1980s<\/a>\u00a0whose sacrifices and unsubmissive struggle shook the foundations of the mullahs\u2019 misogynous regime.<\/p>\n

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Femicide in Iran: Women\u2019s Blood on the Ground, Justice in Ruins<\/h3>\n

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Femicide in Iran: Iran has witnessed the horrifying murders of at least 9 women by their close male relatives in just 20 days, from May 23 to June 11, 2025. Husbands, partners, or male relatives of the victims predominantly committed the murders. These women were killed for reasons as harrowing as requesting a divorce, seeking economic and social independence, or simply resisting coercion, discrimination, or robbery.<\/p>\n

These murders are not merely stains on the hands of individual killers; they are glaring indictments of a misogynistic regime, where laws grant men ownership over women, decriminalize domestic violence, and define women as subordinates and property. A system where legal and social mechanisms are not designed to protect women, but rather to preserve patriarchal control.<\/p>\n

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MEK Supporters in California Call for Global Action Against Iran\u2019s Executions and Human Rights Violations<\/h3>\n

California \u2013 June 17, 2025: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) gathered to protest the Iranian regime\u2019s escalating human rights abuses, particularly the death sentences imposed on political prisoners.<\/p>\n

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MEK Supporters in #California<\/a> Call for Global Action Against #Iran<\/a>\u2019s Executions and #HumanRightsViolations<\/a>.#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> #FreePoliticalPrisoners<\/a> #FreeIran2025<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/6e8oYN6ZHo<\/a><\/p>\n

— Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) June 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n