Iran has executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.
"The tragedy of that day was not just receiving the news of Majid's death, but relaying it to my fifteen-year-old son."
His brother, Hossein Davani, says that no trace remains of his brother, who he says was murdered in the heat of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence's project to kill dissidents in 1998.
Biden has emphasized how Donald Trump abandoned American values abroad. Iranians have been trying to curtail the despotic powers of their rulers for over one hundred years.
A machine gun controlled by a satellite was used in last week's assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has said.
New Iranian legislation requiring officials to boost uranium enrichment within the country's controversial nuclear program is seen as an attempt to hurt moderates and sabotage President Hassan Rohani’s efforts to deal with the incoming U.S. administration.
In Iran, hard-liners are calling for tough action to deter international attacks like the one that killed one of the fathers of its nuclear program. Moderates are warning against closing off avenues to diplomacy with the incoming U.S. administration.
New legislation proposed in Iran would impose 25-year jail terms on illegal migrants while also giving officials the authority to fire on vehicles suspected of carrying asylum seekers.
In a criticism of President Hassan Rouhani's government, a member of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office, Rasool Sanaei Rad, said that those seeking "a resumption of negotiations with the United States" had "partisan and electoral goals.
The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist has prompted criticism of the security apparatus, which is being blamed for failing to prevent the killing. The attack has resulted in calls for authorities to find the foreign agents that seem to have infiltrated the security system.
"We were told at the Ministry of Intelligence that 'it was a simple mistake,'" prominent Iranian writer Farkhondeh Hajizadeh says in an interview with Radio Farda. "By a simple mistake, they killed, dismembered, and mutilated two people,"
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