Al-Monitor – An open letter addressed to two-time president (1997-2005) and Reformist icon Mohammad Khatami, urging him to salvage the political movement that he pioneered in 1997, has been signed by 100 Iranian activists.
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Iran Arrests Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
RFL/RE – Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been arrested in the country’s capital, her husband says.
Read More »Scores of students kicked out of Iranian universities for their religion
Al-Arabia – Tens of college students have been kicked out of their universities over the past months because of being followers of the Baha’i faith, several human rights groups have reported.
Read More »Iran Police Arrest Dozens Of Unpaid Steel Workers In Ahvaz Demos
Radiofarda – Iranian police have arrested “dozens of steel workers” in Ahwaz during Monday night and Tuesday June 12.
Read More »Political Prisoner Soheil Arabi Tried In Closed Court
Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, held at the Great Tehran Penitentiary, was tried on June 10, by the 28th Branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by joudge Moghilseh.
Read More »Canada’s House Of Commons Votes Against Relations With Iran
Radiofarda – The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reversed Canada’s long-stated goal to improve relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Read More »Iranian Officials Vehemently Reject Netanyahu’s Offer Of Help
Radiofarda – Officials of the Islamic Republic lambasted Israel on Monday, June 11, for launching a Persian website to “assist people and farmers of Iran to recycle water”.
Read More »800 Days Since Nazazin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Was Imprisoned
Radiofarda – Two years ago, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, was on a trip to Iran with her toddler, Gabriella, to celebrate the Iranian New year, Norouz. On her way back home to the UK in 2016, she was arrested at the airport in Tehran. She is currently serving a six-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for “undermining the regime.”
Read More »Mazda, Hyundai Leave Iranian Market, Affecting Cars and Shipping
Radiofarda – A week after it was announced that French carmaker Peugeot-Citroen had left the Iranian market, Japan’s Mazda and South Korean Hyundai have also suspended contracts with Iran, according to a member of the parliamentary Industries and Mines Commission.
Read More »Three People Arrested For Promotion And Training Tattoo
Iran-HRM – Iraj Sharifi, head of the security polices in Khorasan Razavi, assumed that police cops were able to arrest the mangers of tattoo centers in Mashhad following an internet crime survey.
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