Al-Arabia – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that US sanctions against Iran targeted the country’s “malign behaviors” and were aimed at helping the Iranian people take control of their government. Tillerson told a New Delhi press conference after talks with India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj that the United States would not block “legitimate” business activities with Iran by India …

Iran Human Rights  – At least 10 prisoners of Rajai Shahr Prison were transferred to solitary confinement yesterday. Most of the prisoners were sentenced to death on murder charges and all of them are scheduled to be executed on Wednesday October 25.. According to a close source, at least 10 prisoners from different wards were transferred to solitary confinement on October …

CHRI – Students protest against President Rouhani’s nominee to head the Science Ministry, Mansour Gholami, at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. Rouhani’s Previous Nominees Rejected by Supreme Leader Reformist members of Parliament and Iranian university students have come out strongly against President Hassan Rouhani’s nominee to head the Science Ministry, Mansour Gholami, claiming he supports conservative policies and had previously …

AL-Monitor – Blue Whale is an online Russian game consisting of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators over a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring players to commit suicide. On Oct. 21, two teenage girls sought to commit suicide in the central Iranian city of Esfahan. A 15-year-old died, and a 16-year-old suffered serious injuries. The next day, Esfahan’s police chief confirmed …

PayvandNews – International Hospitals Group (IHG), a UK-based healthcare services company, has signed a memorandum of understanding worth 1.8 billion Euros with Iran to finance the construction of a network of cancer centers in the country, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said. International Hospitals Group (IHG) “The British major company (IHG) signed today an MOU to finance construction of …

blastingnews -The U.S. should not sacrifice human rights at the altar of conciliation with a murderous regime. Ali Safavi Curated byJane Flowers Thousands of people protest in Tehran on October 23, 2017 (NCRI US/YouTube screencap)The preamble of the Universal Declaration of #Human Rights, the governing document on global human rights, states: “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal …

Al-Arabia – We all understand Iran, the regime with the ambition to dominate and gain influence. However, in fact we do not really know it. To Iran, the end justifies the means from selling cigarettes to counterfeiting currencies, dealing drugs, money laundering, collecting Khums tax and using it for military purposes, establishing complex networks of companies in Africa, Latin America and …

Daily Mail – Fleeing grinding poverty and unemployment, thousands of Afghan Shiites have been recruited by Iran to defend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, former fighters and rights activists say. Afghan men and boys as young as 14 are signing up to fight on the promise of money and legal residency in Shiite-dominated Iran, Assad’s regional ally, according to Human Rights …

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have blamed a murky social-media challenge known as Blue Whale for suicide leaps by two teenaged girls, throwing the spotlight on an online phenomenon that has been tentatively linked to suicides around the world but remains clouded in mystery.

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, during a surprise visit to Baghdad, has urged Iraqi and Kurdish leaders to enter into dialogue to end their bitter dispute and ease tensions in the country. “We have friends both in Baghdad, and we have friends in Irbil, and we encourage both parties to enter into discussion and dialogue,” Tillerson said in …