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⚠️ The lifeless, bullet-riddled body of a 19-year-old young man - received images with description: #Shahrokh_Zare from #Noorabad #Mamasani, Fars Province, killed on Thursday, January 18th' Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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⚠️ Graphic images of citizens shot with bullets. Received video with description: 'Malekshahr #Isfahan, Thursday January 18th, around 10:30 PM they started firing live ammunition from Police Station 20 on Mofteh Street' Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Senator Graham: "Apparently in Iran they call me 'Uncle Lindsey' and apparently that's a good thing." ardeshir is referring to the popularity of phrases written with "my uncle Lindsey Graham." This stems from reactions to Zeinab Soleimani's statement - Qasem Soleimani's daughter - who said: my dear uncle Sayed Hassan Nasrallah will avenge my father's blood. 📡 @VahidOnline

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Amirhossein Eshghi, 18, and Aryan Eshghi, 14, two brothers who were both students and were killed in the January protests in Tehran. One of their relatives told Radio Farda that in front of Police Station 153 [Valiasr neighborhood, Tehran], a bullet first hit Amirhossein in the back. When he fell to the ground, they didn't allow anyone to approach him and fired two more bullets into his heart and chest. According to the relative, Amirhossein was a protester and had participated in protests on previous days as well. On the night of January 7th, he had also been hit by a pellet bullet in the leg, but despite this, he went out to the streets again on January 8th and never returned. Aryan, Amirhossein's younger brother, was also targeted by a war bullet in the throat in front of the same police station on January 8th. According to his relatives, other protesters had taken him to a clinic, but he died a day later. The bodies of these two brothers have been buried in a two-story grave in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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⚠️ Lifeless body in received footage with description: '#Morteza_Aghaei, 40 years old, resident of Hasht-Metri Molla neighborhood on Khavaran Street, was shot in the abdomen on Thursday, January 18th, in front of the Malik Ashtar Basij base in Atabak Khavaran neighborhood, #Tehran, and died after being transferred to Bazargan Hospital. He and his father had a blue Nissan and sold fruit with it.' In the first video I received without sound, he was still alive and could speak. Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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⚠️ Lifeless body of a 29-year-old young man - received images with description: '#Mohammad_Nours was shot in front of me on Nabard Street, Piroozi #Tehran, Thursday 18 Dey' Vahid if you were here, your birthday would be in two weeks butterfly_effe 📡 @VahidOnline

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Abolfazl Norouzi, 15 years old, died on January 8th in Mashhad after being hit by a war bullet. According to those close to him, he was targeted by gunfire near the Seyedi Basij base (West Saba). Abolfazl Norouzi was a mechanic apprentice. He had dropped out of school a year ago and was working at a repair shop. His family was under pressure to declare their son a Basij member, but they refused. They were not allowed to hold any ceremonies, and Abolfazl's body was buried in silence at Behesht-e Reza in Mashhad. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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"Anis Grivaani," from the Kurmanji Kurds of Khorasan and a resident of "Esfarayen," was killed by direct gunfire from the Islamic Republic's repressive forces during the Thursday protests on January 18, 1404 [Persian calendar] in this city. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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Father and son killed unaware of each other's fate. Mani Shafiee was an accounting student and his father, Mehdi Shafiee, worked on a construction project. One of their relatives told Radio Farda that on January 9th, Mehdi Shafiee left his home in Qaimiyeh neighborhood of Eslamshahr to participate in protests and lost his life when a war bullet hit his heart; while he didn't know that his son, Mani, had also been targeted by gunfire. According to this source, Mani was at his grandmother's house. After hearing gunshots, he went outside to find his father, but at the end of the alley he was hit by a war bullet in the kidney area and died in his grandmother's arms. The bodies of Mehdi and Mani Shafiee were buried on January 11th in Chenar village, a suburb of Asadabad in Hamedan. Another relative told Radio Farda that the bodies of these two were handed over in Kahrizak. According to them, they received 500 million tomans for receiving the bodies and were not allowed to bury them in Tehran. Finally, they were buried in their paternal village, Chenar in Asadabad, Hamedan, with people in attendance. According to this account, people chanted anti-government slogans during the ceremony and didn't allow security forces to enter the village. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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"Somayeh Yousefi," 44 years old, was killed on Thursday, January 18, 2024, during protests in the "Tehranpars" neighborhood of Tehran by gunfire from Islamic Republic suppression forces. According to one of Somayeh Yousefi's relatives, a sniper positioned on the roof of one of the high-rise buildings in the area targeted her in the head. An informed source tells IranWire: "Somayeh was transferred by her brother to Imam Hossein Hospital. They moved her body from there to Kahrizak. Even though family members were aware of all stages of the body transfer, they still searched for her body in Kahrizak for two days before finding it." Somayeh Yousefi had professionally started taekwondo from age 20 and held a black belt. She was a graduate in accounting and had years of experience working as chief accountant for an import-export company. An informed source about Somayeh Yousefi says: "Her whole life was spent exercising and working. She was very family-oriented." Somayeh Yousefi's family found her among the mass of bodies in Kahrizak on January 21, 2024, after two days of searching and buried her in Behesht-e Zahra. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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🔻 Greek police say the body of Dana Eden, television producer of the Israeli series "Tehran," has been found in a hotel room in central Athens. According to police, her body was discovered yesterday, Sunday, in her hotel room near Syntagma Square in the Greek capital. A police spokesperson said: "An autopsy has been ordered, CCTV cameras have been examined, and everything appears to indicate it was suicide." Ms. Eden, who was 52 years old, went to Athens 12 days ago to film the fourth season of this spy series that airs on Apple TV+. The first three seasons of "Tehran," which focuses on the mission of a Mossad agent in Tehran, were filmed in Athens. Filming of the fourth season was postponed after October 7, 2023 and the Gaza war. This series has become one of Israel's best-selling productions internationally and won the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in 2021. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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Iran International: Security forces raided the village of Chenar in Asadabad, Hamedan on the morning of February 17th, arresting hundreds of residents with beatings and violence, parading them around the village in vehicles with cage bars before taking them to the police station. Security forces stormed and besieged the village starting at 4:30 AM with dozens of armored vehicles, five minibuses and vans. Officers also positioned four Dushka machine guns on rooftops of houses in the area. Reports indicate that during these mass arrests, a number of residents were injured and some individuals were severely beaten by officers. Information received suggests that other residents who had gathered outside the police station to follow up on the situation of those arrested heard screaming and shouting from inside the station. @VahidOOnLine AlvandIranzamin Gershasp7 📡 @VahidOnline

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🔻 According to reports and posts by family members of those killed in last month's bloody crackdown, security forces have prevented the holding of memorial ceremonies and gatherings of survivors at graves in Arak. On Sunday - February 15th - family members of Esmaeil Ganjgoli, Mehrdad (Matin) Moshtaqi, and Ehsan Akbari posted separate stories on social media about the cancellation and relocation of their loved ones' memorial ceremonies, citing "security considerations," "imposed restrictions," and "cemetery closure" as reasons. Memorial ceremonies for thousands of those killed in the bloody crackdowns of January 7th and 8th will be held over several days this week, and it appears security forces, fearing the formation of protests and gatherings of Islamic Republic opponents, are seeking to prevent them from taking place. This comes while holding memorial ceremonies is considered one of the traditional and religious customs in Iran. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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According to information received by Iran International, Abolghasem Salavati, head of Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, has issued death sentences for at least 14 detained protesters, including Abolfazl Karimi, in "online" sessions. Abolfazl has told his family about forced confessions under beatings and torture. According to sources, Salavati holds virtual court sessions simultaneously for protesters in groups of 14 people. Abolfazl Karimi, 35 years old, is the father of a young child who works as a motorcycle courier in eastern Tehran. On January 6th, he encountered two injured women and intended to help them when they shot him in the leg with pellets and arrested him. After about a month of detention in "Greater Tehran Prison," this young man was recently transferred to Qezel Hesar Prison along with 50 other protesters. In a phone call with his family, he said that without treating his wounds, he was tortured and while his eyes were covered, he was forced to sign confession papers against himself. @ VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Ali Larijani said in an interview with Qatari network Al Jazeera that International Atomic Energy Agency inspections could be "monthly or even daily" to, as he put it, "identify any suspicious activity." The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic continued: "Even if the (nuclear) technology is underground or in mountains, there's no problem. The Agency can monitor it and we will allow this monitoring." The reference to facilities built underground or in mountains could include centers used for uranium enrichment that have been targeted by American and Israeli attacks. This shift in position comes on the eve of a new round of Iran-US negotiations scheduled to be held Tuesday in Geneva. Although the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic has once again emphasized that Iran will not negotiate about its missile program. The Islamic Republic of Iran has not issued permission for International Atomic Energy Agency inspections since the 12-day war, and Iranian officials had specifically emphasized regarding nuclear facilities targeted in Israeli and American attacks that inspections were not possible. @VahidHeadline The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency met and held talks Monday, February 27th with Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rafael Grossi wrote in a post published after this meeting on X network: "On the eve of important negotiations to be held tomorrow in Geneva, I have now concluded detailed and comprehensive technical discussions with Iran's Foreign Minister." The Islamic Republic's state broadcasting news agency also released a video of this meeting, saying that the process of nuclear talks has begun in the second round. @VahidHeadline Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, said in a joint press conference with Hungary's Prime Minister: "Reaching an agreement with Iran will be difficult, but Trump continues to strive for an agreement despite the difficulties." He added: "We have to see what happens and what outcome we get." Rubio added: "There is an opportunity to reach an agreement diplomatically." @VahidOOnLine Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic, expressed doubts about Washington's seriousness in nuclear negotiations on the eve of the second round of talks between Abbas Araghchi and US representatives in Geneva. Baghaei told IRNA Sunday evening, February 26th, referring to the previous round of negotiations: "We are negotiating in conditions of complete mistrust and lack of confidence. We have previous experiences and we are not allowed to ignore these experiences even for a moment...The problem we have is changing perspectives and contradictory positions; not only from negotiators, but from some other American officials. They send completely contradictory signals and messages, none of which indicate seriousness." Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, had also previously expressed doubts about the United States' "seriousness." Some officials, parliament members and Islamic Republic media say this round of negotiations might be a time-buying exercise for America aimed at consolidating forces and preparing more for attacks on the Islamic Republic's military and nuclear positions. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, after arriving in Geneva to continue negotiations with the United States, wrote on X: "I have come to Geneva with genuine initiatives to reach a fair and balanced agreement, and what is absolutely not on the agenda is surrendering to threats." Abbas Araghchi announced that he will meet with Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Monday in Geneva. The Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic also reported that before starting negotiations with the United States on Tuesday, he will meet with the Foreign Minister of Oman. @ VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline