Reformist Editor Arrested by Security Agents Amid Pre-Election Crackdown
Iranhumanrights.org - Amid a widening crackdown on journalists and activists in Iran ahead of the country's May 2017 presidential election, security agents…
Month: March 2017
Can Iran’s conservatives agree on candidate for upcoming vote?
AL-monitor - Iranian Principlists are finding that getting their house in order ahead of an election is becoming more complicated…
Ahead of presidential vote, Khamenei attacks Rouhani’s economy
Al-monitor - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, used his most important…
Iran to divert water from Gulf of Oman inwards
PayvandNews - Iran says it is implementing a landmark project to divert water from the Gulf of Oman to its…
ANALYSIS: Is Iran beginning to feel the Middle East heat?
Al-Arabia - While an agreement allowing Iranian pilgrims to join this year’s hajj is good news, this is no leap…
Death Sentence Continued to Be Used for Arbitrary and Political Charges
themediaexpress -A man and woman joined the ranks of those that are being executed or sentenced to death by the…
ZTE Pleads Guilty In Iran Sanctions Case, To Pay Record $900 Million In Fines
RFL/RE - Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has pleaded guilty to violating U.S. sanctions by illegally shipping $32 million of…
Court Rejects Iranian Demand To Return $1.2 Billion Frozen In U.S. Victim Case
RFL/RE - A Luxembourg court has rejected Tehran's demand to return $1.6 billion of Iranian assets claimed by the United…
Iranian Leaks About Missing American Led Levinson Family to Sue Iran
VOA - A U.S. lawyer for the family of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran 10 years…
Gloom surrounds Rouhani’s budget for new Iranian year
Al-monitor - In recent decades, the budgeting process in Iran has been such that the budget’s capacity to function as the…