Let's talk Iran - Feb 27, 2021

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

Feb 26—Highway from Yazd province to Sistan & Baluchistan province, SE #Iran Officials are sending more reinforcements to quell protests. Reports also indicate locals surrounded, beat & unarmed four Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) members in the city of Zahedan. #سراوان

Internet disruption reported in southeast Iran amid unrest

Several rights groups reported in a joint statement that authorities shut down the mobile data network in the restive province of Sistan & Baluchestan, calling the disruptions an apparent “tool to conceal” the regime's harsh crackdown on protests. LINK

Len Khodorkovsky @MessageFromLen

Trying to feed your family is not a crime punishable by death. But in Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran’s terrorist regime killed 30+ human beings, incl. a 13 year old, for doing just that. The real crime is the regime’s corruption and ineptitude, which causes poverty and desperation.

TERRORISM

Terrorism Ruling Presents Opportunity to Hold Tehran Accountable

Iran's systemic use of diplomatic corps should have been obvious all along to anyone who has been paying attention to Tehran's commitment to using #terrorism as a form of statecraft. LINK

Iran 'can't act with impunity,' Biden says after U.S. air strikes

U.S. President Joe Biden said Iran cannot act with impunity and warned Iran to “be careful” when asked what message he was sending the country with the U.S. air strikes in Syria. “You can’t act with impunity. Be careful,” he said.

The United States carried out air strikes authorized by Biden against facilities belonging to Iranian-backed militia in eastern Syria on Thursday, in response to rocket attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq. LINK

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

#BREAKING -Explosions heard over Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -Initial reports suggest the Arab Coalition has intercepted a ballistic missile -Earlier today the Coalition intercepted an explosive drone launched by the #Iran-backed Houthis english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2021…

Arab Coalition intercepts, downs Houthi drone headed towards Khamis Mushait

The Arab Coalition says it intercepted and downed an explosive-laden drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait. LINK

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

Another angle of the Arab Coalition forces intercepting a ballistic missile launched by the #Iran-backed Houthi militias over Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Former Iran MP Questions Assadollah Assadi’s Conviction

Assadi was a career diplomat in Tehran’s embassy in Vienna. In 2018, he delivered 1lb of TATP explosives to his agents in Luxemburg in a plot to target an opposition rally near Paris. LINK

Israel says initial assessment is Iran behind explosion on Israeli-owned ship

“Iran is looking to hit Israeli infrastructure and Israeli citizens,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said. “The location of the ship in relative close proximity to Iran raises the notion, the assessment, that it is the Iranians.” LINK

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tortured political prisoner sews lips together over being denied medical care

Political prisoner Khaled Pirzadeh, who had been on a hunger strike, announced that he has sewn his lips together since Wednesday, February 24, to protest the authorities’ refusal to provide him medical care. LINK

Iran: Government corruption and growing misery

Due to the unjust distribution of wealth & widespread poverty across Iran, regime experts are concerned that people’s growing frustration with the injustice & discrimination will lead to further nationwide uprisings. LINK