Tag: Khuzestan province
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Family Anguishes Over Fate of German on Iran’s Death Row
paris – Frustration as other foreign nationals were set free. Occasional phone calls, months apart. And the constant fear that the executioner’s noose could be tightened any day. The family of Jamshid Sharmahd have endured three years of torment as each day they await a breakthrough, while always fearing the worst, for the German citizen…
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Iran upholds the death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian Arab dissident
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a Swedish-Iranian dual citizen convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks, including one on a 2018 military parade that killed 25 people, state media reported Sunday. Iran said in 2020 that its security forces arrested Sweden-based Habib Farajollah…
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The water crisis could lead to conflicts in the Middle East
Several rivers in the Middle East have already lost nearly half of their annual flow over the past fifty years. During the same period, the surface area of several lakes has decreased significantly. An example of this is Lake Urmia in Iran, which has halved in size – from 5,400 square kilometers in the 1990s…