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UPDATE: 01:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

UN Experts Urge Iran Not to Execute Abused Child Bride<\/h3>\n

Agence France Presse (AFP) – UN rights experts have urged Iran to halt the execution of a woman over the death of her abusive husband, who she was married off to at 12 years old.<\/p>\n

Goli Kouhkan, an undocumented Baluch woman today aged 25, is set to be executed this month, eight independent United Nations experts warned in a statement published Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Kouhkan’s case exemplifies the systemic gender bias faced by women victims of child marriage and domestic violence within Iran’s criminal justice system,” the experts said.<\/p>\n

“Carrying out the execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights law.”<\/p>\n

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China Ramps Up Iranian Oil Intake After Getting New Import Quota<\/h3>\n

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(Bloomberg) —\u00a0China\u2019s independent oil refiners are boosting their intake of Iranian crude from onshore tanks and ships idling at sea after Beijing issued a fresh round of import quotas late last month.<\/p>\n

Several processors based in Shandong province have been taking crude from bonded storage at ports and refineries this week, according to people familiar with the matter, asking to not be identified discussing sensitive information. A lot of the oil had been bought prior the new quota allocation, they said.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s private refiners, known as teapots, dominate the nation\u2019s purchases of crude from Iran and Russia, which are cheaper than other grades, but had to scale back buying during the fourth quarter due to exhausted allocations and the fallout from sanctions. Beijing runs a quota system under which it controls the amount of oil that non state-owned refiners can import.<\/p>\n

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US Offers $10M for Iranian Cyber Operatives Behind Election Interference and Critical Infrastructure Attacks<\/h3>\n

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Fatemeh Sedighian Kashi and Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar maintain a close working relationship coordinating cyber operations targeting elections, US critical infrastructure and businesses through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps cyber unit known as Shahid Shushtari.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of State\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0rewards of up to $10 million for information leading to their identification or location, marking the latest effort to disrupt operations of Iranian cyber operatives that has caused significant financial damage and operational disruption across multiple sectors including news, shipping, travel, energy, financial services, and telecommunications throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Shirinkar oversees the Shahid Shushtari group, previously identified under multiple cover names including Aria Sepehr Ayandehsazan, Emennet Pasargad, Eeleyanet Gostar, and Net Peygard Samavat Company. Whereas, Sedighian serves as a long-time employee working closely with Shirinkar in planning and conducting\u00a0cyber<\/a>\u00a0operations on behalf of Iran\u2019s IRGCs Cyber-Electronic Command, the State Department said.<\/p>\n

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UK Reaffirms Stance on Iran Threats After MP Presses Government on IRGC<\/h3>\n

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The UK Government has restated its position on security threats linked to Iran after a Conservative MP pressed ministers to respond to Australia\u2019s decision to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism.\u00a0During Foreign Office questions<\/a> on December 2, 2025, Greg Smith asked what discussions the UK had held with Australia and whether Britain might take similar action. While no new measures were announced, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government remains in \u201cstrong conversations\u201d with Five Eyes partners on state and terror threats and reaffirmed that ministers plan to introduce new legal tools capable of addressing state-linked threats as well as terrorism.<\/p>\n

Cooper added that the UK takes \u201cimmensely seriously any threat issued to our national security from Iran,\u201d but she did not indicate whether the IRGC would be targeted under future powers.<\/p>\n

Later in the session, minister Hamish Falconer said the Government continues working to ensure consular access for British nationals detained in the clerical dictatorship, following a question about ongoing arbitrary detentions.<\/p>\n

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How Iran\u2019s regime intentionally devalues its currency to fund terror and repression<\/h3>\n

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The Iranian regime has pushed the nation to a new level of economic despair as the national currency has collapsed to a historic low. In recent days, the US dollar shattered all previous records, soaring past the 1,210,000 rial mark for the first time. This catastrophic event is not an unfortunate market fluctuation; it is the direct result of a deliberate policy of plunder by the ruling clerical mafia. While state-run media outlets lament that the rial \u201cis melting away\u201d after a staggering 70% depreciation in just one year, the regime\u2019s Central Bank remains in a \u201cstrange and dangerous silence.\u201d This inaction is not incompetence; it is complicity in a state-sanctioned heist designed to finance the regime\u2019s pillars of survival: domestic terror, regional proxy wars, and its illicit weapons programs.<\/p>\n

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A Female Prisoner Executed in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad<\/h3>\n

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In the early hours of Wednesday, December 3, 2025, a female inmate was hanging in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. She had previously been sentenced to death on charges related to drug offenses. Despite the execution taking place, her identity has not been disclosed as of this report, and officials from Vakilabad Prison and judicial authorities have yet to publicly confirm the execution. Under the mullahs\u2019 rule in Iran, the operatives of the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 network, who traffic vast quantities of narcotics and addict the youth of Iran and the Middle East, openly supply prisoners in the regime\u2019s jails with drugs to break their resistance.<\/p>\n

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