Two Minutes in Tehran — Episode 21

IAEA Censures the Islamic Republic

On Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors issued a resolution censuring the Islamic Republic and demanding its cooperation in its safeguard investigation by readmitting inspectors and reinstalling surveillance cameras at nuclear sites.
This resolution comes after concerns regarding the regime’s nuclear program, however the Islamic Republic has responded to previous censures by further advancing their nuclear program and further blocking oversight.

On Tuesday, regime forces arrested Hossein Shanbehzadeh, an Iranian blogger and writer, for his response to one of Khamenei’s tweets.
Hossein’s tweet simply contained a dot, and the tweet garnered more likes than Khamenei’s original tweet.
In 2019, Hossein was jailed on charges of “insulting the sanctities and the leader of the Islamic Republic,” making it clear that in the Islamic Republic, even posting a single punctuation mark and it receiving more likes than the Supreme Leader’s tweet, is insulting to the nation and is grounds for arrest.

On Monday, registration to run for the regime’s presidential election concluded.
As of now, as to be expected in any illegitimate election, focuses right now are not on what each candidate's policies are, but rather which candidates will even be permitted to run by the Guardian Council. “Approved” candidates will be announced Tuesday.