iran-hrm – The Revolutionary Guards Corps murdered a Kurd man in the border region of Kermanshah Province and wounded and arrested another young person.

iranhumanrights – Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi has written a letter from Evin Prison strongly criticizing Iranian officials’ for their failure to uphold the promises of the country’s 1979 revolution.

iranhumanrights – Six months have passed and the Iranian government has still not resolved the dispute over the suspension of a Yazd City Council member, Sepanta Niknam, due to his Zoroastrian faith.

iranhumanrights – On March 21, 2017, Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-born resident of Sweden, began walking from Stockholm toward Iran carrying the country’s pre-revolution national flag. In his Twitter bio he wrote that he was “walking to Iran for freedom.” 

iranhumanrights – On the same day that Iran’s supreme leader issued a religious ruling ordering the state to refrain from “violating the people’s security and domestic space,” state hackers used malware to access private user information, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.

voanews – WASHINGTON — Iran’s central province of Isfahan has seen a second consecutive day of street protests against water shortages, as lawmakers warned that millions of residents will have no tap water as soon as next month.

alarabiya – Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday in a meeting with Arab League foreign ministers ahead of the 29th Arab summit to be held in Riyadh, that the Palestinian issue is a top priority at the summit.

radiofarda – In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.”

rferl.org – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran not to test Israel and compared Tehran to Nazi Germany on the day Israel commemorates the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.

rferl.org – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has signaled that the United States may impose “very strong” sanctions on Iran as President Donald Trump seeks to address what he called the “disastrous flaws” in the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.