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Month: January 2018

Police Arrest Three Gonabadi Dervishes and Injure 10 at Peaceful Rally For Detained Devotees

CHRI - Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city…

Majority of Iranian MPs Call For Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

CHRI - A majority of Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter calling for a ban on foreign social media apps…

Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release

CHRI - Detainees arrested during the protests that began in Iran in December 2017 have been told to tell officials…

Women’s campaigns flourish beyond Iran protests

Al-Monitor - As the protests in Iran dominated international news in early January, an editor of Grazia asked Farian Sabahi,…

Rouhani doubles down on Iran’s conservatives with ‘digital economy’ plan

Al-Monitor - After receiving criticism for unblocking the popular social media app Telegram, which was closed over the recent protests…

Iran exports over $8.5B petrochemicals in 9 months

PayvandNews - Iran exported over 16.4 million tons of petrochemical products worth $8.581 billion during the first nine months of…

Audio recording of Dr AhmadReza Djalalis addressed to Sadegh Larijani on the false accusations against him by interrogators of the Intelligence Service – Secretly recorded in Evin (DorrTV exclusive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJtizfmJHc Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, hi with respect. I want to say that I Ahmadreza Djalali during 21 months in prison…

Tillerson: U.S. Troops Staying In Syria To Counter Assad, Iran

RFL/RE - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that U.S. troops will remain in Syria indefinitely not just…

UN Chief Warns Against Endangering Iran Nuclear Deal

RFL/RE - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging nations not to damage Iran's 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers because…

Lawyer: Elderly American-Iranian Jailed in Iran Hospitalized with Heart Problems

VOA - An 81-year-old American-Iranian imprisoned in Iran, Baquer Namazi, was hospitalized earlier this week due to a drop in…