PayvandNews – The Iran men’s national field hockey team has defeated the Australian squad at the 2018 Men’s Indoor Hockey World Cup in Germany to claim the third place overall at the end of the prestigious international tournament. On Sunday, the Iranian outfit thrashed Australia 5-0 in the bronze medal game, which was staged at the multi-purpose Max-Schmeling-Halle arena in the German …

theverge – The news came down on Thanksgiving Day. ASL19 founder Ali Karimzadeh Bangi, one of the leading lights of the expat Iranian digital rights community, appeared in court on charges of sexual assault and forcible imprisonment. The following day, he would be forced to cut ties with ASL19 entirely. For many in civil society groups, the court appearance came …

RFL/RE -Those who publicly criticize Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei betray the Islamic Revolution and its founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, says Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Major General Qassem Soleimani.

Iran’s judiciary is “fully responsible” for the death of an Iranian-Canadian citizen who died while in police custody, the New York based NGO Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has said in a statement. University professor and environmental activist Kavous Seyyed-Emami was arrested January 24 along with several other activists. Seventeen days later, Seyyed Emami’s son, Ramin, tweeted the …

RFL/RE – Mahmoud Sadeqi, an outspoken member of the Iranian parliament says that the deputy chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Kaveh Madani, has been arrested.

RFL/RE – Academics in Iran and rights activists are calling for a serious and transparent investigation into the death of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmental activist Kavous Seyed-Emami in prison. Four academic societies related to political science, sociology, peace studies, and cultural studies made the call in an open letter to President Hassan Rohani published on February 12. Iran’s judiciary says …

AL-Arabia – For the past decade February, part of which coincides with the month of Bahman on the Iranian calendar, has been marked by febrile political activities in Iran under the Khomeinist regime. February 1 marks the anniversary of the late ayatollah’s return to Tehran after 16 years in exile.

AL-Arabia – US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that Israel has an “absolute right to defend itself” against Iran in light of the Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria on Saturday, Haaretz reported. Syrian air forces had shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria. The US military had no …

Iran Human Rights – The following joint statement was issued by 19 human rights defender organisations to commemorate Asma Jahangir, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran who was passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2018.

Al-Monitor – “You are no artist if you are drawing on a wall with spray paint. You are either a vandal or a political activist scribbling a slogan,” Iranian graffiti artist “Mad” said of the longstanding public’s opinion on street art. The first generation of Iranian underground graffiti artists started painting on Iran’s walls around the beginning of the 21st …