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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Britain, the United St

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Britain, the United States and the Netherlands on Tuesday issued a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing spyware they say is used by Iranian state-linked actors to target dissidents, activists and journalists.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre said Iranian state-linked cyber actors had used a spyware family known as “CHOSEN BRICK” to steal emails, messages and other sensitive information through “spear-phishing” campaigns on messaging platforms including WhatsApp and Telegram.

“The details of this cyber campaign reveal  how Iran ruthlessly uses digital surveillance in pursuit of  its  aim  to  repress critics of the regime, stealing emails and messages and accessing devices,” Paul Chichester, NCSC director of operations, said in a statement.

Iran‘s embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The malware, according to the advisory, can collect information from contact lists, emails and social media accounts, capture screen content and access a device’s microphone. The NCSC said some victims’ personal details had later appeared on pro-Iranian leak sites. The FBI, in its own advisory, said Iran‘s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was using the malware to “collect intelligence, conduct data leaks, and inflict reputational harm against their intended targets.”

The FBI declined to share additional details on how many people have been targeted with the malware, or where they’re located.

The NCSC said the attackers often posed as trusted contacts on messaging apps and tailored their approach to individual targets. In some cases, it said, they used fake documents, including fabricated MRI test results, to persuade victims to download the malware.

UNMUTE 🔊 - Newly released footage from inside a Se

UNMUTE 🔊 - Newly released footage from inside a Sepehran Airlines Boeing 737 captures tense moments for passengers after a technical malfunction forced the Mashhad to Kermanshah flight to turn back.

According to reports, part of a tire on one of the landing gear wheels came off during takeoff. The pilot declared an emergency and requested to return for landing at Mashhad Airport.

Airport officials confirmed the aircraft landed safely at Mashhad’s Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport, with all passengers disembarking unharmed.

Hassan Jafari, public relations director for the Khorasan Razavi Airports General Directorate, said the flight had already been canceled twice due to technical problems. When the issue resurfaced, the aircraft was swapped out, and passengers eventually departed for Kermanshah on a replacement plane.

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Iranian state media are promoting Alaj, an intelli

Iranian state media are promoting Alaj, an intelligence-gathering platform that asks the public to identify and report Iranians living abroad whom authorities consider opponents. The campaign, promoted by state television and Guard-affiliated Fars News Agency, says it has identified 1,600 people, including 600 through public tips.

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By Kayhan Life Staff Sept. 15 - The Islamic Republ

By Kayhan Life Staff
Sept. 15 - The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 59 political prisoners in recent months, several of them aged 18 or 19, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports. Dozens of other political prisoners face the risk of execution, according to the report, which was released on Sept. 10.

Titled “Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters,” the report was produced in collaboration with the Washington, D.C.-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Every week, Iranian authorities have been executing protesters and political dissidents, according to the report, following “grossly unfair” trials and what both organizations describe as “vaguely worded crimes.”

Twenty-nine of the 59 people executed on political charges were arrested during the December and January protests. Three others were arrested in connection with the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protest movement of 2022.

In 16 of the 29 recent cases, there was no allegation of murder. Instead, the death sentences were handed down on charges including “waging war against God,” “corruption on Earth,” or “operating on behalf of hostile states.”

Of the 18- and 19-year-olds who were executed, five met their deaths in public in what the report said appeared intended to “create greater fear in society.”

The report also highlighted what it described as unfair and expedited judicial proceedings against those arrested in the protests. In many cases, trials were extremely brief, and some defendants were denied access to lawyers of their own choosing.

By Kayhan Life Staff Sept. 15 - Iran’s educational

By Kayhan Life Staff
Sept. 15 - Iran’s educational system is on the verge of collapse as it faces challenges including a severe shortage of teachers, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers has said, citing a report compiled by the Eslamshahr Teachers’ Association in Tehran Province.

According to the report, the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran faces a shortfall of between 100,000 and 130,000 teachers — roughly 10 percent of its current workforce. The shortage is affecting all levels and fields of education.

Overcrowded classrooms are another major challenge. The problem has become more acute this year, as financial difficulties have forced many families to move their children from private to public schools. Even in the capital, some classrooms now have as many as 40 students, a situation that is likely to undermine the quality of both teaching and learning.

The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers noted that, despite the standards set out in the Fundamental Transformation Document — the governing framework for Iran’s education system — class sizes in many urban and rural areas, especially in disadvantaged and remote regions, are well above the recommended average.

It said many teachers are facing classrooms of up to 45 students, “which not only lowers the quality of education but also places additional psychological pressure on both teachers and students.”

The report also highlighted Iran’s poor performance in international educational rankings.

By Kayhan Life Staff Sept. 15 - The Iranian-born G

By Kayhan Life Staff
Sept. 15 - The Iranian-born German director Niloufar Taghizadeh’s documentary “Googoosh: Made of Fire,” which premiered in cinemas in October 2024, is coming out on Apple TV this week to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement.

The documentary is the extraordinary story of the superstar Iranian singer and actress Googoosh, who rose to fame in the 1960s and ’70s, yet whose career was cruelly interrupted by the Revolution, when she was placed under house arrest for 21 years. Googoosh staged a comeback in North America in the 1990s, and since 2000, has been performing for adoring audiences all over the world.

“Humans carry a power within them,” says Googoosh in the documentary’s opening scenes. “A source of strength. We all have it, even if we don’t know it. We are not aware of it, somehow.”

“Googoosh: Made of Fire” tells the moving story of the Queen of Persian Pop, using rare archival footage, intimate interviews and the artist’s own personal reflections to trace her tumultuous life, her exile, and her triumphant return to the international stage in 2000.

“I had a stepmother who was…stereotypically evil,” Googoosh recalls in the documentary. “She made my brother and I suffer a lot. She often hit us. At home, she made us work like dogs. I had three jobs: Housekeeping and childcare at home, and my artistic work out in the world.”

“I tried to do my best at school,” she says. “But sadly, that was taken from me at an early age.” (Googoosh only completed elementary schooling, and was not allowed to attend secondary school.)

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