Academic Arrested In Iran For ‘Insulting Sanctities’
RFL/RE - A university professor has been arrested in Iran for allegedly insulting religious sanctities, an official said. Sadeghi Niaraki,…
Month: March 2017
Iran’s Major Naval Exercise, Missile Tests a ‘Standard Practice’
VOA - Iran has wrapped up a large-scale naval exercise involving missile tests at a time of heightened tension with…
Former Political Prisoner Arrested by “Unidentified Agents” Without a Warrant
Iranhumanrights.org - Former political prisoner Majid Asadi was arrested at his home in Karaj, west of Tehran, and taken to…
Iranian-Kurdish Activist Lured to Government Office and Arrested by Intelligence Ministry
Iranhumanrights.org - Farzaneh Jalali, an Iranian-Kurdish civil rights activist, has been held at an Intelligence Ministry detention center in the…
Iran’s priciest export at risk
Al-monitor - With Iran to its south and Russia to its north and west, the Caspian Sea is not only…
Did Iran’s foreign minister write to Tillerson?
Al-monitor - Iranian hard-line member of parliament Javad Karimi Ghoddousi is one of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's staunch enemies.…
Relatives Mourn Indian Engineer Slain In U.S. After Being Mistaken As Iranian
RFL/RE - Hundreds of grieving relatives and friends of a 32-year-old engineer from Hyderabad, India, have been mourning his death…
Editor of State-Funded News Agency Remains Detained Without Access to Due Process
Iranhumanrights.org - Detained since December 2016, Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, remains isolated…
Daughter of Imprisoned Rights Lawyer Accuses Intelligence Minister of Blocking His Release
Iranhumanrights.org - The daughter of an imprisoned prominent human rights lawyer has accused Iran's hardline Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi of…
How Iran’s hard-line media reacted to Oscar win
Al-Monitor - On Feb. 27, around six in the morning, many Iranians were awake waiting to see if Iran would…