HRANA News Agency – Changiz Ghadamkheiri, political prisoner, is still deprived of receiving medical treatment and furlough despite the doctor’s order for surgery and medical leave.

HRANA News Agency – Thirteen protesters who had been arrested in recent protests by security forces, were summoned to Tonekabon Justice Office. The allegations were announced as; “participating in illegal gatherings”, “insulting the leadership”, “disrupting public order”, and “propaganda against the regime”.

Iran Human Rights –  Two prisoners who were sentenced to death on the charge of armed robbery, are transferred to the solitary confinement. They are in imminent danger of execution. According to a close source, on the morning of Friday April 13, two prisoners named Bahman Varmezyar and Mehdi Cheraghi were transferred to the solitary confinement in order to be …

CHRI – Iran’s minister of education has warned that any official or non-governmental organization (NGO) that uses educational guidelines from the banned 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be “firmly dealt with.” “In every meeting with senior education officials I have emphasized that not only should the Education 2030 Framework for Action be rejected but students should also not be …

Al-Monitor – On March 8, the White House announced that US President Donald Trump had accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation to hold talks, sparking various international reactions. Many have welcomed it as a first step toward preventing a potential nuclear war between Washington and Pyongyang. Some, however, have been more skeptical and are asking what will happen if such …

Al-Monitor – Iranian officials have condemned the latest strikes on Syria by Western powers, saying that Iran will continue to support the Syrian government and that the United States will not achieve its objectives, whatever they may be. During a speech to Iranian officials, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the strikes by the United States, Britain and France a …

Radiofarda – Iran’s central bank has announced a ban on the sale of foreign currencies at exchange bureaus. Under new government guidelines, exchange bureaus no longer have the right to buy, sell, or transfer foreign currencies, and the central bank will no longer provide cash to the bureaus. Mohammad Ali Karimi, head of public relations for the central bank, announced …

Businessinsider – Iran’s currency recently hit an all-time low, and economic uncertainty looks likely to test the country’s political establishment.

Shabtabnews- In response to the Iranian regime’s increasing clampdown of ordinary Iranians, since the recent protests, the IOPHR (International organisation to preserve human rights) released a new press release, urging the Western governments to condemn all the Iranian regime’s human rights violations and to give the regime’s human rights violations the same priority, as their concerns in regard to Iranian …

Radiofarda – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has outlined three goals of the Trump administration in Syria: a ban on the use of chemical weapons, a full defeat of ISIS, and preventing Iran from “taking over the area.” “We want to make sure that the influence of Iran doesn’t take over the area,” Haley said in an …