Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry
CHRI -Javad Azari Jahromi Enters Spotlight By Unblocking YouTube and Blogger in Universities President Hassan Rouhani is considering nominating a…
Month: August 2017
Rouhani, Reformists battle over Cabinet picks
AL-monitor - President Hassan Rouhani attended his endorsement ceremony Aug. 3 with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the heads of the other two branches…
Rouhani officially begins second term
Al-Monitor — At the Imam Khomeini Hussainiya prayer hall, the residence of Iran’s supreme leader, an orchestra played the Iranian national…
Iran says nuclear deal violated by new US sanctions
Al-Arabia - Iran said on Thursday that new sanctions imposed by the United States had violated its 2015 nuclear deal with…
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani sworn in for a second term
Al-Arabia - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani was officially sworn in for a second term on Thursday at a ceremony overseen by…
US: Iranian Launch a Provocative Step
VOA —The United States, Britain, France and Germany have called Iran's recent rocket test "inconsistent" with a U.N. Security Council…
Three Sunni Prisoners Taken to Solitary Confinement in Preparation for Executions
Iran Human Rights -On the one-year anniversary of the group execution of 25 Sunni prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison, three…
Iran Should Immediately Release Critically Ill Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest
CHRI - Karroubi and Mousavi's Health in Peril After Six Years of Forced Isolation More than six years into their extrajudicial…
Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge
CHRI - Esmail Abdi's Six-Year Sentence Influenced by IRGC The former secretary general of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association (ITTA) has been returned…
Saudi engagement with Iraqi Shiites stirs talk of opening with Iran
Al-monitor - On May 2, Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman (now the crown prince) said in a television interview that dialogue with Iran was impossible due…