CHRI – 120 Academics in Iran Call on Rouhani to Immediately Suspend Judicial Cases against More than 150 Students In a stark display of societal outrage in Iran over President Hassan Rouhani’s complicity in rights violations, 120 academics from universities across Iran, some of whom are also current or former lawmakers and cabinet members, have called on the president to …

CHRI – Forty-six members of what security officials have described as an online “modeling ring,” including 8 female models, were arrested at an unspecified date in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan according to an announcement by local police chief Gen. Azizollah Maleki on July 16, 2018.

Al-Monitor – Iran has been gripped with drought for over a decade, and the country’s precipitation has dropped to its lowest level in the past half-century. According to the latest recorded figures by Iran’s Ministry of Energy, there have been 166 millimeters (6.5 inches) of rainfall across Iran in the current water year (from the beginning of October 2017), which …

Al-Monitor – Dodging pressure from all sides, Iran’s minister of communications and information technology seems to have no intention of backing down from his push for transparency.

Radiofarda – Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of people in fresh crackdowns on models and associated colleagues posting “immoral images” online.

Radiofarda – Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticised Saudi Arabia over its management of the haj pilgrimage and called for a fresh investigation into a 2015 crush that killed hundreds, Iranian state TV reported on Monday.

Radiofarda – Iranian news agency ISNA reported on Monday that Ruhani has given the green light for allowing Iranian women to attend football matches. This comes after Ruhani delivered the news in a note to Sports Minister Masoud Soltanifar, who then asked the president how the Ministry for Sport should proceed with this.

Radiofarda – New statistics released by the World Bank reveal that Iran has had a painful economic decline during the past four decades of the Islamic Republic’s clerical rule. It appears that those who take pride in Iran’s widespread military presence in the region, deliberately or unknowingly ignore the collapse of the country’s national economy. New statistics released by the …

Radiofarda – A prosecutor in Fardis, near Tehran says that a dissident who disappeared two weeks ago was killed by her former fiancée.

Radiofarda – An Iranian pilot who recently made revelations about gross safety violations by Iranian airlines was arrested on Sunday, July 15 in Tehran for a few hours. Amin Amir Sadeghi published a video on his Instagram page showing himself handcuffed by the police saying with a smirk that it was shameful that he had been arrested because he made …