Iran-HRM – Baha’i woman, Sogol Zabihi, 21 has been banned from continuing her undergraduate degree because of her Baha’i faith. The graphic undergraduate student at Rasam University of Karaj, found that she could no longer access the university website when she intended to receive the exam entry card in June 2018.

Iran-HRM – Iranian students arrested during the widespread December/January protests earlier this year have been sentenced to prison terms. The Appeals Court in Tabriz, northwest Iran, on July 10 upheld a two-year sentence against Roya Saghiri and a six-month prison term for Ali Ghadiri. A three-months prison was also upheld by the Appeals Court against Ali Kamrani, a student of …

VOA – Israel agents broke into an Iranian warehouse and smuggled out tens of thousands of pages and nearly 200 computer discs on Iranian plans to build a nuclear weapon, U.S. media reports say. The New York Times first reported the story in its Sunday edition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used these documents, in part, to urge President Donald …

RFL/RE – Iran’s supreme leader has called on state bodies to support the government of President Hassan Rohani in fighting looming U.S. economic sanctions, saying America’s “conspiracy” could be defeated, Iranian media have reported.

Radiofarda – Maryam Faraji, a 33-year old civil rights activist and dissident, who mysteriously disappeared on Thursday, July 5, has been found dead.

Radiofarda – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he cannot confirm the recent comments made by the top aide of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader that Russia will invest money in Iran.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi says more than 30 million Iranians continue to access the banned messaging app Telegram using two domestic applications Hotgram and Talagram.

Radiofarda – Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in Syria with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a phone conversation on July 14, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Guardian Council (GC) has rejected two government bills aiming to pave the way for Tehran to join the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC).

Radiofarda – While Persian-speaking satellite channels in Iran have been periodically subject to jamming since 2003, the information and communications technology minister says that equipment for monitoring “jamming signals” has been installed in the city of Shiraz and several other cities across the country.