Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned “thousands” of prisoners, including many arrested in recent anti-government protests, on security-related charges, state media reported on Sunday. “Prisoners not facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, having direct contact with foreign agents, intentionally killing and causing hurt, destroying state property and starting arson will be pardoned,” state […]
Rights groups say that as a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ibrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital. Now three decades later president, and seen by many as Iran’s potential next supreme leader, Raisi is presiding over an uncoordinated response to domestic and international […]
