CHRI – Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted to his home under state surveillance since February 2011 without trial has written an open letter describing a sense of hopelessness.

CHRI – Tech Experts Urge Rouhani to Stop Stifling of Internet in Iran

CHRI – Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford University PhD student, has been held without charge and access to a lawyer for more than a month since being arrested in Tehran by the Intelligence Organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Al-Monitor – It sounds like the days of Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah Yazdi leading Iran’s hard-liners are coming to a close. At 83, he appears ready to step aside for a new ayatollah. It has recently been reported by local news agencies that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, plans to appoint Mohammad-Mahdi Mir-Baqeri, 57, as Tehran’s Friday prayer leader. Remarkably, Mir-Baqeri has not denied the rumors. The hard-line …

Radiofarda – Iran’s former hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says it was his “agile foreign policy” that led the Obama administration to begin negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. Speaking in Tabriz in Eastern Azarbaijan province on Thursday, May 31, Ahmadinejad repeated a recent remark, saying that he had warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that “it was not …

Iran-HRM – During the recent truck drivers’ strike, a number of people have been arrested. Aftab State-Run Website wrote a quote from the representative of the parliament, Hashemi Takhti Nejad, that during the truck drivers’ strike, people were arrested that didn’t have any relations with trucks and were not drivers.

Iran-HRM – The condition of the political prisoner, Arash Sadeghi, who is infected with ulcerous colitis or ulcerative colitis, is in a horrible situation and the prison officials have not taken any measures to give him treatments.

Iran-HRM – Farangis Mazloum, mother of Soheil Arabi, said in an interview that since her son is on a hunger strike to protest the prison’s condition, he has been banded from any visitation. She added that the authorities of the Great Tehran Prison tried to force the prisoner to write a handwritten note in which it indicates he is responsible …

Iran-HRM – On Tuesday morning, May 29, 2018, the Iranian armed forces shot and fired to a group of border porters along the Sheno and Sidakan borders. The shooting resulted to the death of one porter and a severe injury to another. The deceased porter was identified as Ribar Moradi, a 28 years old who was married and had a …

Iran-HRM – On Sunday morning, May 27, 2018, Shakib Teymouri, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Gorgan University, was expelled from the university. The university officials closed the Baha’i student’saccess to the university’s site and prevented him from registration so that he be deprived from education.