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Month: April 2018

Mattis: No Decision Yet on US Withdrawal From Iran Deal

VOA - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says there has been no decision made on any U.S. withdrawal from the 2015…

Lawyer Who Exposed Cover Up of Client’s Death in Custody Could Be Imprisoned For Years in Iran

CHRI - Human rights attorney Mohammad Najafi is facing charges from three different courts and years of imprisonment in Iran for publicly…

Iran’s TV censors draw ridicule, protests

Al-Monitor - Censorship is nothing new for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), but particularly awkward editing has recently…

Ex-IRGC chief: Iran to leave nuclear weapons treaty if US ditches deal

Al-Monitor - A former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that if the United States walks away…

Iran’s World Cup hopes rest on AZ Alkmaar’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh

ESPN - It is not often that free-scoring forwards have to step out of the shadow of miserly defenders to…

Gov’t Agencies ‘Can’t Cope’ With Huge Number Of Child Laborers, Says Official

Radiofarda - Approximately nine thousand child laborers in Iran, many of whom homeless and vulnerable to violence and sexual abuse,…

Iran’s Judiciary Confirms Death And Flogging Sentence For Mohammad Salas

Iran-HRM - The Head of Tehran’s Judiciary said that the death sentence for Mohammad Salas, a member of Gonabadi Dervish…

Baha’i Father And Daughter Sentenced To Heavy Prison Terms

Iran-HRM - According to reports, Baha’i father Nematollah Bangaleh and his daughter Nazanin, who were detained in September 2016 and…

Authorities Cancel Telegram’s License To Host Servers In Iran

RFL/RE - Iranian authorities have ordered the social-messaging app Telegram to move its servers outside the country. The Supreme Cyberspace…

U.S. Reportedly Investigating Alleged Iran Sanctions Violations By China’s Huawei

RFL/RE - The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into suspected violations of Iran sanctions by China's Huawei Technologies,…