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Month: August 2016

Confiscated $2 billion could spell legal trouble for Ahmadinejad

Al-monitor - Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's personal letter to US President Barack Obama asking the American president to return $2…

Why some are accusing Rouhani of playing the woman card

Al-monitor - President Hassan Rouhani cited "lack of justice in the employment process" when he ordered the cancellation of the…

Iran’s miraculous desert glacier

BBC - Hidden in Iran's vast central deserts lies one of the Islamic Republic's most unexpected geographical finds. Ice cold…

Iran Eases Process For Adoptive and Foster Parenting

PayvandNews - The State Welfare Organization of Iran has facilitated the process for prospective foster or adoptive families, an official…

“World Youth Orchestra – Sounds for Iran” project performs first concert in Tehran

PayvandNews - The World Youth Orchestra and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra performed their first joint concert in Tehran's Vahdat Hall…

Iran executes six more Kurds without fair trial

Kurdistan24 – Political prisoner Mohammad Abdullahi and five other Kurds were executed in Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday, the Kurdistan…

A photograph showing a blurred-out woman’s volleyball player did not originate from an Iranian news agency.

snopes - Iran's Tasnim News Agency blurred a woman volleyball player out of a photograph because she was in a…

Attack on police car in Iran kills policeman, wounds 2

washingtonpost - Iran's official news agency is reporting that a policeman died and two of his colleagues were wounded when an…

Central Iran: Prisoner Executed in Public

Iran Human Rights - A prisoner, identified as M.R., was reportedly hanged in public in the city of Saveh on…

ّFive Prisoners Hanged in Iran in Accelerating Rate of Executions

Iranhumanrights.org - Hangings Follow Twenty Prisoners Executed Last Week Five prisoners were hanged inside Iran's Orumiyeh Central Prison in West…