Since June, Iran has removed some of the cameras.  “Nuclear Monitors Say Surveillance Gear Missing in Iran,” Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, September 8, 2021.

“Iran Sentences 8 To Public Flogging For ‘Economic Misconduct’,” Iran News Wire, September 8, 2021.  ““The use of cruel and inhuman punishments such as flogging, amputation, and blinding are an appalling assault on human dignity and violate the absolute prohibition on torture and other degrading treatment or punishment under international law,” Amnesty’s Philip Luther said.”  “As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran is legally obliged to forbid torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment. It’s simply unacceptable that the Iranian authorities continue to allow such punishments and to justify them in the name of protecting religious morals.”  More than 100 “offenses” are punishable by flogging under Iranian law. The offenses include theft, assault, vandalism, defamation, and fraud.”

5,000 mass executions in 1988—Raisi responsible.  “Iran’s new president has blood on his hands,” Nasser Mohajer and Kaveh Yazdani, Iran Source, September 8, 2021.

Bakhtiari must be a mouthpiece for the Regime.  In his efforts to show how well the Regime has done, he drastically (by 3-5 x) misreports the number of Covid deaths in Iran.  “Iran vs. “unsanctioned” countries: who dealt better with the pandemic?,” Faranak Bakhtiari, Tehran Times, September 8, 2021.

“US Navy launches Mideast drone task force amid Iran tensions,” Jon Gambrell, AP, September 8, 2021.