...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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for breaking the news of the death of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini which sparked months of protests.
Niloufar Hamedi of Shargh Daily and Elaheh Mohammadi from Sazandegi paper were arrested separately in September last year for publicizing the death of Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Months of antigovernment protests, met with a bloody crackdown, ensued after the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian woman.
One of the charges brought against Hamedi and Mohammadi includes collaboration with the US. Protesters have been accused of collaborating with the US, Israel, and other western countries; all considered as foreign enemies by Tehran.
"We reject those charges. They are obviously not true. And I will note that over the course of the protests," said Matthew Miller, a US State Department spokesperson over the collaboration charges.
"Iranian authorities have repeatedly violated Iranians’ human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
, punished them for executing their essential freedoms," Miller added while calling on Tehran to stop end "arbitrary detentions" and "sham trials."
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and the intelligence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - leveled charges of espionage against Hamedi and Mohammadi.
Hamedi is set for trial on May 30, while Mohammadi is scheduled for May 29.
Rights groups have also accused Iran of carrying out "sham trials" of those detained.
The pending trial comes as the number of executions carried out has increased. On Friday Iran executed three men over participation in the demonstrations over Amini’s death.
In a recent
Earlier this month, both Hamedi and Mohammadi along with Iranian human rights activist Nargez Mohammadi, received the 2023 UNSECO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in absentia , for their reporting of the protests.
According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index issued by the Gay Paree-based Reporters without Borders, a non-profit organization aiming to safeguard freedom of information, Iran is listed as 177 out of 180 in the world, making it one of the worst countries in the world for press freedom, followed only by Vietnam, China and North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...