Iran-HRM – The state security forces in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province opened fire and murdered a young man identified as Gol-Mohammad Barahvi, driving a vehicle carrying diesel fuel.

RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has warned U.S. President Donald Trump not to pull out of a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, saying that the United States will face “severe consequences” if it violates the pact. “I am telling those in the White House that if they do not live up to their commitments, the Iranian …

RFL/RE – Iran’s foreign minister has said that neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia can be the dominant power in the Middle East and called on countries in the Persian Gulf region to start talking to each other.

Al-Arabia – Events in the Middle East are rapidly unfolding as alliances are becoming more intense and it is being recreated and formed again. Although such a situation was usual in the past, the speed today has clearly intensified as current affairs have become a major base of a new Cold War that has in fact begun and can easily …

VOA – U.S. President Donald Trump officially welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron with an arrival ceremony Tuesday at the White House before the leaders hold official talks and attend a state dinner.

VOA – An Iranian opposition leader’s website is raising the alarm about the health of a female member of Iran’s Gonadabi dervish minority who was arrested in Tehran in a violent clash with police in February.   The Saham News site of Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under house arrest for years, published the report about the detained woman, Shokoufeh …

VOA —Workers in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan have launched an extended protest against water shortages and nonpayment of wages. Social media users who contacted VOA Persian said farmers from the town of Bavi protested for a third straight day outside a local government building in nearby Ahvaz city on Monday. They said the farmers complained of not receiving enough …

HRANA News Agency – Abdulfattah Soltani, a lawyer and prominent human rights defender who is enduring his seventh year of imprisonment, went to Evin Prison by the end of his furlough.

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS –  At least 12 death row prisoners have been transferred to solitary confinement in Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj in preparation for execution. It is believed that their sentence will be implemented on Wednesday, May 5. Iran Human Rights (IHR) warns against a new wave of execution in Iran. IHR’s spokesperson Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said:” Iranian authorities use …

Iran Human Rights – At least one prisoner, named Seyyed Iman Hosseini Moqaddam, was transferred to solitary confinement. The prisoner, who was referred to as “the fake postman,” was sentenced to death on the charge of rape. However, the prisoner and his family believe that there is a political and economic reason for this charge.