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On Saturday Feb. 8, tens of thousands of opponents to Iran’s authorities rallied in Paris, joined by Ukrainians to call for the fall of the government in Tehran, hopeful that US President Donald Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign could lead to change in the country. The protest, organised by the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which is banned in Iran, comes as two of the group’s members face imminent execution with a further six sentenced to death in November. “We say your demise has arrived. With or without negotiations, with or without nuclear weapons, uprising and overthrow await you,” NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi said in a speech. People from across Europe often bussed in for the event, waved Iranian flags and chanted anti-government slogans amid images deriding Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. https://tinyurl.com/3wzmsjyu

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On January 31, the National Council of Resistance of Iran-U.S. Representative Office (NCRI-US) released new intelligence revealing Tehran’s ongoing efforts to develop nuclear warheads. The information, sourced from the Defense and Strategic Research Committee of NCRI, based on reports from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) network inside Iran, highlights the regime’s covert nuclear weapons program. The intelligence details the Iranian regime’s focus on developing nuclear warheads for solid-fuel missiles with a range exceeding 3,000 kilometers at the Shahrud missile site. This effort is being directed by the Organization for Advanced Defense Research (SPND), the entity established to consolidate Iran’s nuclear weapons activities. The Shahrud site is a heavily militarized zone operated by IRGC Aerospace Force experts, with restricted access to local citizens. Unauthorized entry into the prohibited area leads to immediate arrest. Personnel vehicles are prohibited inside the site, with transportation provided exclusively by IRGC Aerospace Force vehicles.

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Political prisoner Parisa Kamali is being denied access to essential medication at Dolatabad Prison in Isfahan-Iran, despite suffering from hyperthyroidism, which requires specific treatment. Parisa Kamali, born in 1986, is married and is a geography university student from Yazd. She was arrested in Isfahan on April 29, 2024, and subsequently transferred to Dolatabad Prison. After undergoing interrogation, she was tried and sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “destruction of public property,” “propaganda against the regime,” and “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization (MEK).” Her sentence was later reduced to three and a half years upon appeal. Political prisoner Parisa Kamali also faces an unresolved case in a Yazd court, where her legal status remains uncertain. https://tinyurl.com/243xksb5

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A group of female political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, located in Tehran, Iran’s capital, have been barred from receiving visitors after staging a sit-in and chanting anti-regime slogans. Their protest was in response to the transfer of two political prisoners sentenced to death, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, a city west of Tehran known for housing Iran’s largest execution facility. The women affected by the visitation ban include Azar Korvandi, Reyhaneh Ansari, Forough Taqipour, Shiva Esmaeli, Maryam Yahyavi, Golrokh Iraee, Sakineh Parvaneh, Zahra Safaei, Marzieh Farsi, Tahereh Nouri, Motahareh Gouneii, Nahid Khodajoo, Elaheh Fouladi, Nasrin Khezri, Anisha Asadollahi, and Samaneh Asghari. On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Hedayatollah Farzadi, the warden of Evin Prison, informed the women that they were being punished for their protest and that, starting Sunday, February 2, they would be denied all visitations—both in-person and behind glass—for three weeks. https://tinyurl.com/2bwwkt34

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At dawn on Saturday, February 1, 2025, a Maryam Kaviani was hanged in Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad, western Iran. She had been sentenced to death on charges of murder. Maryam Kaviani is the first woman to be executed in Iran in 2025. https://tinyurl.com/58cybs9w