{"id":335527,"date":"2025-08-13T07:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335527"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:17:24","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-august-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 August 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Los Angeles, USA, held a rally on August 10, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Britain, France and Germany Threaten to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran as Nuclear Program Deadline Nears<\/h3>\n

BERLIN (AP) \u2014 The top diplomats of Britain, France, and Germany threatened to reimpose sanctions on Iran as an end-of-the-month deadline nears for the country to resume negotiations with the West over its\u00a0nuclear program<\/a>\u00a0and cooperation with the\u00a0United Nations nuclear watchdog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three countries, known as the E3, wrote in a letter to the United Nations dated Friday that they were willing to trigger a process known as the\u00a0\u201csnapback\u201d mechanism<\/a>, which allows one of the Western parties to reimpose U.N. sanctions, if Tehran doesn\u2019t comply with its requirements.<\/p>\n

French Foreign Minister Jean-N\u00f6el Barrot posted the letter Wednesday to X. He co-signed it along with top diplomats from Germany and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Lebanon President Tells Iran Security Chief He ‘Rejects All Interference’<\/h3>\n

Agence France Presse (AFP) – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Iran’s visiting security chief on Wednesday that he rejected any interference in the country’s internal affairs, branding as “unconstructive” Iran’s statements on plans to disarm Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

“We reject any interference in our internal affairs,” Aoun said, adding that “it is forbidden for anyone… to bear arms and to use foreign backing as leverage,” Aoun told Ali Larijani, according to a statement from the Lebanese presidency posted on X.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Iran<\/h3>\n

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The Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s already severe restrictions on human rights worsened in a number of areas during the year. The government executed hundreds of prisoners, including many who confessed under torture and faced unfair trials. There were new cases of violent enforcement of women\u2019s dress code restrictions. While some political prisoners, including persons detained in connection with protests related to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, were released from prison, other participants in the protests were arrested, sentenced to prison and death, subjected to torture, or executed during the year. Restrictions on religious freedom were severe during the year.<\/p>\n

Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings; disappearances; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; arbitrary arrest or detention; transnational repression against individuals in another country; serious abuses in a conflict; unlawful recruitment or use of children in armed conflict by the government for its own use and use by terrorist groups throughout the region such as Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and the former government of then President Bashar Assad in Syria; serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including violence and threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests and prosecutions of journalists, and censorship; restrictions of religious freedom; significant restrictions on workers\u2019 freedom of association; and significant presence of any of the worst forms of child labor.<\/p>\n

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The Hezbollah State in Lebanon, Whose Time Has Ended<\/h3>\n

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The former Secretary-General of Hezbollah used to describe himself as one of the soldiers of the Supreme Leader, meaning he was an Iranian soldier. That description applies to every member of the militia led by Hassan Nasrallah.\u00a0Iran was angered by a sovereign Lebanese decision. Was President Joseph Aoun supposed to present the decision to restrict weapons to the state alone to the Supreme Leader before issuing it? The matter is Lebanese, not Iranian. Lebanon is a sovereign state, and Iran has no right of guardianship over it. It is the right of Lebanon\u2019s government to enforce laws that affirm its sovereignty over its own territory.<\/p>\n

If Iran has another opinion, that is its problem, and Lebanon should not have to pay the price for it. And if Iran openly acknowledges that it has an army in Lebanon which the Lebanese government has no right to touch, then the matter takes on another dimension\u2014one that falls within the framework of an occupation Lebanon, as an independent state, must break in whatever way it sees fit. At the forefront of these ways is working to end that occupation, starting with the disarmament it represents.<\/p>\n

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

Same Tyranny, New Name: Iran\u2019s Regime Deploys Stealth Bill to Silence A Rebellious Nation<\/h3>\n

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After its previous attempt to pass a sweeping internet censorship law, the \u201cSianat\u201d bill, stalled in the face of public fury, the Iranian regime is once again moving to crush online freedom. In a clear maneuver to deceive the public and bypass opposition, a new bill with the same repressive content has been introduced under the benign-sounding title \u201cOrganizing Cyberspace.\u201d This clandestine push for what many are already calling \u201cSianat 2\u201d is a panicked confession of the regime\u2019s inability to control the flow of information and its terror of an increasingly restive populace.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s introduction is an example of the regime\u2019s duplicity. It was announced just 48 hours after President Masoud Pezeshkian\u2019s government was forced by public pressure to withdraw its own draconian legislation, the \u201cCountering Lies<\/a>\u201d bill. The state-run newspaper\u00a0Etemad<\/em>, in an August 11 report, exposed the ploy, writing that the new bill\u2019s proponents are \u201cmoving with the lights off this time.<\/p>\n

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Raheleh Rahemipour, 72, Transferred to Hospital in Critical Condition<\/h3>\n

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On Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Raheleh Rahemipour, a 72-year-old prisoner seeking justice, detained in Qarchak Prison, in Varamin, fell due to loss of balance and sustained serious physical injuries. Following this incident, she was transferred to Mofatteh Hospital for urgent treatment. Despite her advanced age and deteriorating health, Raheleh Rahemipour is being held without access to essential medication or medical care. Her continued detention in the unsanitary conditions of Qarchak Prison alone poses a grave threat to her life.<\/p>\n

Although she\u00a0suffers from serious illnesses<\/a>\u00a0and requires specialized medical attention, judicial authorities and prison officials have refused to grant her conditional release or arrange her immediate transfer to an appropriate medical facility. Both medical and judicial bodies have described her condition as critical and impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n

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Soudabeh Qassemzadeh Hanged After Six Years in Central Prison of Isfahan<\/h3>\n

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The wave of executions in Iran shows no sign of abating. According to information released on August 12, at dawn on Monday, August 11, 2025, a woman identified as Soudabeh Qassemzadeh was hanged alongside three men in\u00a0Isfahan<\/a> Central Prison.\u00a0Soudabeh Qassemzadeh, around 45 years old and a mother of three, had been imprisoned for six years on charges of killing her husband. She was later sentenced to death by a criminal court.\u00a0Women executed by the clerical regime in Iran are often themselves victims of domestic violence and discriminatory family laws, with many acting in self-defense.<\/p>\n

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Rally in Los Angeles Warns of Imminent Executions of Five Iranian Political Prisoners<\/h3>\n
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