Iran Human Rights –  Mohammad Najafi, who questioned the authorities’ claim about a protester’s “suicide” in prison, has been under arrest since January 15. According to a close source, Mohammad Najafi, attorney at law, was arrested by the security forces at his house on the evening of January 15. Mohammad Najafi had been investigating the suspicious death of Vahid Heidari, …

PayvandNews – Iran water crisis (source: cover of Iranian economic magazine Tejarate Fard) By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (source: LobeLog)   The most important sentence in the Persian language is arguably “Baba ab dad.” The sentence means “father gave water.” It is the first sentence taught to Iranian children when they are learning to read and write. Beyond its phonetic simplicity, it …

usnews – The two-week protest movement that rocked cities across Iran earlier this year has largely subsided, but the fallout from the government’s harsh response has just begun.

Al-Arabia – US President Donald Trump said, on Friday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the US will “block Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon.”

VOA — The U.N. Security Council will visit Washington on Monday for a working lunch with U.S. President Donald Trump and to conduct a visit to examine alleged Iranian missile parts.

Iran Human Rights – Ramin Hossein Panahi, a political prisoner, is sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran.

CHRI – Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee were beaten by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran’s Evin Prison and transferred to Gharchak Prison in the city of Varamin, 37 miles south of the capital.

CHRI – Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees who were arrested during the weeklong protests that hit several Iranian cities on December 28, 2017.

CHRI – Credible Sources Report That Detainees Told to Request Pills to Speed Up Release More than 150 people detained in the protests that broke out in Iran in December 2017 have requested opioid addiction treatment pills, according to the Tehran-based Committee for the Defense of the Dey 1396 Detainees.

CHRI – Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.