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🔸 Information has reached Radio Farda indicating that "approximately 180 people" were killed during the suppression of protests on January 8-9 in Najafabad county by government forces. According to these sources, of the total killed in this city and the towns and villages in its vicinity, "approximately 110 people" have been buried in Najafabad's grand cemetery. Earlier, images from the 40th day memorial ceremonies for those killed in Najafabad had been published, showing photos of 63 victims from the city itself. The received information also shows that on the evening of January 8 alone, at least 14 people were killed in Yazdanshahr, and according to local sources, the death toll in Yazdanshahr over both nights of January 8-9 reached at least 22 people in total. @VahidHeadline 🔸 Mizan news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Republic's judiciary, reported on the trial of three defendants accused of "setting fire to and destroying the Jafari Mosque and Imam Hadi Seminary" in the Kuy-e Nasr (Gisha) area of Tehran during the January protests. Prior to this report's publication, the names of these three defendants - Ashkan Maleki, Mehrdad Mohammadinia, and Arman Marefati - had not been announced as detainees. The Committee for Following Up on Detainees' Status announced on their Telegram channel @Followupiran that no lawyer has been assigned to represent these three protest detainees so far. @VahidHeadline 🔸 Peyman Jebali, head of the Islamic Republic's Radio and Television organization, said: "Most of the January detainees are young, and we have spoken with them. Apart from the usual atmosphere where detainees typically speak in the form of confessions, this program is in the format of an intimate conversation that has been recorded and will be broadcast soon." Regarding the broadcast of forced confessions from detainees, he added: "We don't take confessions; in fact, we broadcast what the judicial and security apparatus makes available to all media outlets." He continued: "We publish evidence like released images and confessions that are taken, but we are not present at the detention site to take confessions. Taking confessions is not the job of media." @VahidOOnLine 🔸 The US Secret Service says it has killed a man who entered the secure perimeter of Donald Trump's residence in Florida. According to the Secret Service, the man was spotted near the northern entrance of Mar-a-Lago with a weapon and a container holding fuel. @VahidHeadline 🔸 An Iranian Health Ministry official confirmed in an interview with Shargh newspaper the authenticity of "painful" photos published from behind Al-Ghadir Hospital in Tehran, showing bodies that were abandoned following the deadly suppression on Thursday, January 18. Hossein Kermanpour, head of the Health Ministry's Public Relations and Information Center, providing statistics on the number of wounded sent to this hospital on the night of January 18, told Shargh newspaper: "About 150 wounded came to this hospital and they also brought the bodies of 36 deceased to the same hospital. This is while Al-Ghadir Hospital's morgue only had capacity for five bodies." @VahidHeadline 🔸 The New York Times reported that Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, has delegated major authorities to Ali Larijani, Secretary of the National Security Council, as the country prepares for possible war with the United States and Israel. According to this report published on Sunday, March 3, several senior officials and Revolutionary Guard members told the newspaper that the Islamic Republic's leader has issued a set of directives aimed at ensuring Tehran's governance, including four layers of succession for military and government positions appointed by him, along with directives given to senior officials to introduce up to four alternates. In this article, Ali Larijani is mentioned as one of the few close political and military figures who will ensure the survival of Iran's system in case of US and Israeli attacks or assassination of Tehran's senior leadership. According to this report, Larijani now practically manages the Islamic Republic's key security, military, and diplomatic operations. @VahidOOnLine 🔸 The very famous rock band "U2" released a new song on Saturday, March 2, in memory of Sarina Esmailzadeh and "thousands of schoolgirls" in Iran, paying tribute to the "Woman, Life,
