South Asia Media Research Institute (SAMRI). All the News That's Unfit to Print, mainly from South Asia. Backup of @SAMRIReports, along with @SReports2
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Two #Baloch men were killed when Iranian security forces opened fire on a vehicle at Khairabad junction in #Iranshahr County, Sistan Baluchestan on 4 Nov 2026. At least 6 relatives of the victims, who had gone to the hospital to inquire about their condition, were detained.
Iranian authorities executed 3 prisoners, including 2 #Baloch, in #Mashhad on drug charges, without allowing them a final visit with their families.
#Baloch account for 2-5% of population and at least 26% of all executions across #Iran from 2010-2026.
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Iranian authorities executed 3 prisoners, including 2 #Baloch, in #Mashhad on drug charges, without allowing them a final visit with their families.
#Baloch account for 2-5% of population and at least 26% of all executions across #Iran from 2010-2026.
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"If I refuse marriage, our society would have made my life miserable. It seems to me that my parents brought me into this world only to get me married... In other countries no one cares about one’s marital status,
The decision to marry or not is left up to the individual.. Parents must accept this; just because you’ve birthed your child, he is not your slave"
- wrote Sadeep, a 27 year old young man who repeatedly quarelled, adamant to refuse an arranged marriage.
Iranian authorities detained Afghan women’s rights activist Hedieh Sahebzadeh and her husband, Tareq Rasa, at the Qom deportation camp. Two civil activists face deportation from Iran and the risk of being returned to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
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Ahmed Kaballo, a former British parliamentary assistant who worked for Iran’s @PressTV before founding African Stream, an outlet accused of being secretly run by Russia’s @RT_com.
Kaballo now heads Sovereign Media which republishes Iranian state media content.
How does an assistant in a British MP’s office end up running an outlet that calls Iran’s murdered protesters armed rioters, takes a prize from Tehran, and is funded by an American heir now jailed in Madrid on charges that include dealings with Iran’s embassy?
The answer runs through a machine the Islamic Republic has spent decades building to carry its story abroad. Ahmed Kaballo is not at its center. He is one link, and the one to follow.
He worked at Press TV in London. He was paid through one of the British companies that kept the channel alive after Britain banned it, an office that ran on Tehran’s money and cash from the Iranian embassy. In the year he says he left, he was still sending it talent. Tehran’s media festival gave him a prize for African Stream, the outlet he says had nothing to do with Iran. He now runs Sovereign Media, a Nairobi “collective” that republishes Press TV and is paid for by Fergie Chambers’ Babochki Collective.
Kaballo is one link. There are others.
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OCHA #Yemen’s Ibrahim Al-Haddad discusses the difficult situation in #Taiz, where families face rising prices, reduced water supplies and overstretched hospitals, due to fighting between #Houthi and pro-government forces.
Speaking to @AlarabyTV, OCHA Yemen’s Ibrahim Al-Haddad discusses the impact of escalating fighting, the difficult situation in Taiz, where families face rising prices, reduced water supplies and overstretched hospitals, and the response 👇
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It is insane—and politically inept—to think one Muslim American senator means we are going to have mandatory hejab in America, like they have in Iran under the Islamic Republic.
When you make asinine, fear mongering claims like this, you do a disservice to (and minimize) what women and girls face under regimes like the Islamic Republic in Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan, who actually brutalize and repress women using Sharia.
You are walking around with complete freedom of dress, Penelope. You’re not oppressed. Make yourself useful and advocate for women and girls who are actually brutalized by regimes that codified mandatory hejab into law.
Iran has sentenced Amirhossein Mousavi to death on charges of "corruption on earth" over his activity on X.
Mousavi posted on X under accounts named James Bi Din (meaning "James without faith" in Persian) @james_bidin.
#امیرحسین_موسوی
موکلم امیرحسین موسوی بابت اتهام افساد فیالارض از طریق فعالیت مجازی در اکانت توییتری جیمز بیدین به اعدام محکوم شد.
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In July, 5 Afghan migrants were killed by Iranian border guards and 1 by Turkish border guards.
Later that month, 19 Afghans died of dehydration while trying to enter Iran.
In September, 17 Afghans, including 5 women and 6 children, died of thirst while trying to enter Iran.
4 #Afghan migrants were reportedly to death by Turkish border guards while attempting to enter #Turkey from #Iran.
In July, 5 Afghan migrants were killed by Iranian border guards and 1 by Turkish border guards. kabulnow.com/2026/11/four-af…
4 #Afghan migrants were reportedly to death by Turkish border guards while attempting to enter #Turkey from #Iran.
In July, 5 Afghan migrants were killed by Iranian border guards and 1 by Turkish border guards. kabulnow.com/2026/11/four-af…
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Another disgusting post from a disgusting person—someone who denied that the criminal Assad regime murdered Syrians with chemical weapons and now mocks the number of Iranian protesters killed by the criminal regime he supports.
Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent years documenting wars and conflicts around the world. Now, she’s been sentenced to 15 years in prison over her reporting in Iran.
Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent years documenting wars and conflicts around the world. Now, she’s been sentenced to 15 years in prison over her reporting in Iran.
Watch the full interview: bit.ly/4eNWZis
#Iran has executed nearly 190 #Afghan citizens since 2024.
Most were sentenced to death in drug-related cases, while others faced charges including murder, espionage for #Israel and participation in anti-government protests in Iran.
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Iranian authorities executed two #Afghan nationals - Mobarak Mohammadi and Qasem Molla Amini - on drug charges.
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The problem with the caricature created around Islamists by Republicans in the US is that it completely deflects from the real threats and distortions created by real Islamists in our region. This is a real struggle: for women, minorities, free thinkers, etc. You made it a joke
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Dispatch from Bahrain, where the government is cracking down on clerics it accuses of fostering allegiance to Iran and fomenting rebellion.
I sat for a rare interview with Lt. Gen Tariq Al Hassan, head of public security, who said Bahrain aimed to uproot purveyors of Iran's Wilayet al-Faqih strand of Shi'ite Islam which had indoctrinated youths.
"Unfortunately, the war exposed the extent to which some individuals had been hijacked and indoctrinated by Iran-linked ideology," said Al Hassan. "Wilayet al-Faqih has fostered allegiance to a foreign state within parts of our society, and that is unacceptable."
Critics and rights groups say the move is a new blow to free speech and religious freedom in a country that crushed 2011 Arab Spring pro-democracy protests.
More than 50 clerics are on trial and the verdict is expected on Sunday, Nov. 8.
The crackdown followed some expressions of public support for strikes in Bahrain, particularly those targeting U.S. bases.
It is a sign of how the Iran war has destabilised regional states allied with the US that did not support the war but have borne the brunt of Iran's attacks.
In Bahrain's case, it has reversed a trend of internal and regional detente.
The government had freed hundreds of prisoners in jail for political activity via royal pardons in 2024, rights groups said. The same year, Bahrain and Iran began talks to restore diplomatic relations, severed since 2016.
Then, the war began.
Read the story in the link below.
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The conviction that Iran will not capitulate even if the US destroys it's critical infrastructure and economy has now become a cornerstone of a geopolitical and military analyses among most pundits and observers. What is fact for them is a bitter realisation and resignation by ordinary Iranians who are helplessly awaiting potential catastrophe.
