Al-Arabia – Basij militias affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards attacked students who gathered in the campus of Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran on Sunday to protest the imprisonment of their friends over accusations of organizing anti-regime protests. Activists posted videos showing Basij members attack the students who were chanting against the judicial authorities demanding the release of the …

Al-Arabia – An Iranian opposition newspaper shared “an unpublished report” sent by Interior Minister Abdel Ridha Rahmani to President Hassan Rouhani detailing figures and statistics and the reasons for the wave of demonstrations that swept through the country. According to the report referred to by the opposition newspaper, the protests in the last days of 2017 and early this year, …

Al-Arabia – An unnamed British-Iranian national has been sentenced to six years in prison on spying charges, the official news agency of Iran’s judiciary reported Sunday, the latest dual national convicted in the country.

VOA – All 11 people aboard a private Turkish jet died Sunday after the jet crashed into a mountainside and burst into flames during heavy rain in southern Iran, authorities said. 

Amnesty – Oral statement at the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council (26 February – 23 March 2017). Item 4: Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran   View report in English http://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1380032018ENGLISH.PDF

Al-Monitor – When the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran took place, its overriding objective was social justice achieved through helping the poor and ensuring political freedom. However, after almost four decades, the income of low-wage earners nationwide has plummeted as the wealthy have grown wealthier. Comprehensive studies of the Iranian economy show that the income gap in Iran is significantly …

PayvandNews – Russia says Iran could join an emerging economic bloc that it leads as early as May in a move that could eventually help both nations dodge the impacts of US-led economic sanctions they face. Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak was quoted by media as saying that Iran’s membership to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) could help the expansion of bilateral …

Iran-HRM – The State police raided a night party, arresting 60 people including 22 young men and 38 women in northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on March 9, 2018.

Iran-HRM – Detained civil rights activist, Golrokh Iraee, who is kept in Qarchak prison in Varamin, is still on hunger strike after 35 days and her health has greatly deteriorated.

Iran-HRM -A man was publicly flogged outside a hospital in Sirjan, in Kerman Province, southern Iran. The news was published by the state-run Rokna news agency on March 10, 2018.