The group Iran Human Rights said Rahnavard's sentencing was based on "coerced confessions, after a grossly unfair process and a show trial." The detention of the two men came on the eve the birthday of Majidreza Rahnavard, a protester who was hanged in a public execution in Mashhad on December 12 - just 23 days after his arrest - after being convicted of killing two members of the security forces.
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The video also claims that in addition to calling for protests, the Youth of Mashhad Neighbourhoods channel showed how to make Molotov cocktails and engage with security forces. Meanwhile, the administrator says their goal was to "call for protests and establish the Youth of Mashhad Neighbourhoods channel" concurrent with the spread of unrest in other cities. He says that after the protests started, "we saw that other cities in Iran, like the cities in Kurdistan and Tehran, were protesting, so we thought we'd start a channel, get active, and call for protests." In one part of the video, the "owner" refers to the start of protests following the killing of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police. The identities of the two men arrested and the other two involved in the channel are not disclosed in the video, though one of the detainees, whose face cannot be seen, is introduced as the owner of the channel, while the other is said to be an administrator and is given the pseudonym Ali Kianloo.
The channel is allegedly managed by four people, including the "owner" and "three administrators." Iranian authorities have been accused by many of those arrested, along with rights groups, of using torture and other methods to forcibly extract false confessions during the protests. It was not clear whether the confessions were made under duress. The Telegram channel Youth of Mashhad Neighbourhoods has been accused by the authorities of instigating the protests. Video of the confessions, produced by the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the southeastern Iranian province of Khorasan Razavi, contains blurred images of two men, along with footage of protests in the city of Mashhad. The agencies, including the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), revealed the arrests on June 15 while also broadcasting what some suspect were "forced confessions." Iranian state news agencies have reported the arrest of two young men accused of being part of a team that manages a Telegram channel associated with the wave of protests sweeping the country. The country on June 23 reported 121 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily toll in over two months, bringing the overall virus death toll to over 9,800. Iran has been the Middle East’s hardest-hit nation by the epidemic with more than 209,000 positive cases so far. "Psychological warfare against Iran as well as the creation of an unrealistic anxiety among people, are the main causes of the recent fluctuations in the foreign exchange market," Rohani said. However, President Hassan Rohani on June 23 sought to downplay the slump in the rial, saying it was "temporary and has no fundamental economic reason," according to state television. The coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices have contributed to the bleak economic outlook. The latest fall comes four days after the UN atomic watchdog urged Tehran to stop denying its inspectors access to two suspected former nuclear sites. President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed crushing sanctions that sent the economy into a tailspin and fueled inflation. The Iranian currency has plummeted against the dollar since Iran and world powers signed a nuclear deal in 2015. The official rate, cited by the central bank website, is 42,000. dollar rose as high as 205,000 rials on the street market, up from 193,400 rials three days earlier, according to the foreign exchange site.
sanctions, the coronavirus, and low oil prices. dollar on June 23, as the country continues to wrestle against the economic effects of U.S. The Iranian currency plunged to new depths against the U.S.
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