Sources:

1 – Interesting comments by Alavi about becoming a minister, Young Journalists Club, 26 March 2017
2 – Less heard stories about the formation of the Ministry of Intelligence, ISNA, 13 October 2019
3 – Hassan Rouhani also criticized the human rights record of his opponents: they only knew execution and imprisonment for 38 years, Voice of America, 8 May 2017
4 – Transfer of 31 political prisoners to solitary confinement and destruction of their belongings, HRANA, 18 April 2014
5 – No news of Saba Azarpik after 11 days, HRANA, 8 June 2014
6 – Baktash Abtin: I still have to be interrogated by the Ministry of Intelligence for my poems, HRANA, 2 May 2015
7 – Zanyar Moradi’s letter from prison; six years have passed, HRANA, 6 August 2015
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