CHRI – Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s Evin Prison have been denied medical leave despite suffering from serious illnesses, a source with knowledge about their conditions told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

On 19th February  2018, a video clip was released online, showing a bus running over a number of people on the road, and resulting in the death of three police officers. This incident was blamed on a member of the Gonabadi Dervishes by the name of Mr. Yavar Mohammad Salas. Another video clip was released around the same time, in which …

Radiofarda – In recent months, Iran has been beset by economic problems despite the promises surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers.

Radiofarda Iran’s crude and condensate exports are set to fall to a two-year low this month as loadings for its main Asian buyers will tumble by one-third from the previous month, said a person with knowledge of the country’s tanker loading schedule.

Radiofarda – Four men armed with batons and daggers entered the Iranian embassy in London Friday afternoon and replaced the Iranian flag with the flag of a group called Khoddam al-Mahdi (Servants of Mahdi).

Radiofarda – A member of the board of directors of the Teacher’s Trade Association of Tehran was battered and violently detained on Saturday, March 3, his wife has disclosed in an interview with Radio Farda.

Iran-HRM – The state-run ILNA news agency on March 7, quoted the Police Spokesperson Saied Montazer al-Mahdi as saying that 27,000 police patrols would be active during the Nowruz holidays.

RFL/RE – A video of three Iranian women singing a famous feminist song on Tehran’s subway on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day is going viral on social media and highlighted ongoing challenges to veiling and other discriminatory laws.

Al-Arabia – In light of the recent protests that swept Iran at the beginning of the year, calling for the removal of the country’s theocratic regime lead by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Iranian women have hopped on the bandwagon and are demanding their basic rights.

Al-Arabia – According to those in the know in Paris, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is a smart soft-soaper capable of persuading a mule out of its hind legs.