RFL/RE – It’s a meeting to chart a future for Syria, featuring the major players involved in the country’s brutal seven years of war.
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Arab Ahwazis protest against Iranian regime for eighth consecutive night
AL-Arabia – Iranian security forces violently confronted Arab Ahwaz citizens who continued to protest against the Iranian regime for the eighth consecutive night.
Read More »Anticipating Trump’s Next Move, Aides Prepare Iran Deal Pullout
VOA — Anticipating an unpredictable president’s next moves, U.S. officials have started planning for the likelihood President Donald Trump will announce next month that the United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
Read More »Family Of British-Iranian Mother Jailed In Tehran Demand UK Government Action
VOA – Supporters of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on espionage charges have demanded the UK government take a bigger role in securing her release, two years after the young mother was detained during a visit to Tehran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, while her infant daughter is being cared for by grandparents. Speaking …
Read More »The Complicated Situation of Zahedan Central Prison Narrated by Witnesses
HRANA News Agency – Mismanagement in Zahedan Central Prison, administrative corruption and intervention of inviolable institutions in the internal affairs of the prison have led to the creation of a complicated situation in this prison that has its effect on the daily lives of thousands of prisoners. The high level of uncertainty in the prison, the failure to address the specific situation …
Read More »Juvenile Offender, Mohammad Kalhor, in Imminent Danger of Execution
Iran Human Rights – Mohammad Kalhor’s Lawyer, Mohammad Aqakhani, declared that his client who is sentenced to death for murdering his teacher at the age of 15, might be executed soon.
Read More »Urgent Call for a Fact-Finding Committee to Investigate a Prisoner’s Death
Iran Human Rights – According to the reports, Ali Savari, one of the prisoners who were tortured in Shiban Prison on March 25 and 26, passed away.
Read More »Iran’s Categorization of Autism As a “Special Disease” Is a Double-Edged Sword for Persons With Disabilities
CHRI – The Iranian Parliament’s recognition of autism as a “special disease” will have positive and negative consequences for persons living with the disability in Iran according to an Iranian disability rights advocate.
Read More »Imprisoned Iranian Baluchi Rights Activist Not Heard From Weeks After Sudden Transfer
CHRI – The family of imprisoned Baluchi civil rights activist Emadeddin Mollazehi has not heard from him since he was moved on March 14, 2018, from Saravan Prison in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in southeastern Iran to an unknown location.
Read More »IRAN’S TARNISHED GEM
nationalgeographic- Revered by ethnic Azeris as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan,” Lake Urmia was second only to the Caspian Sea as the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East, a haven for birds and bathers. Since the early 1970s nature and humanity have chipped away at this gem tucked in northwestern Iran, reducing its size by about 80 percent over the past …
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