rferl.org – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Iran’s authorities to immediately release prominent lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, saying her arrest and the new charges against her reveal the “grave degree the Iranian judiciary is criminalizing human rights activism.”

rferl.org – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that a newly established Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aims to overthrow Iran’s clerical establishment, but it would fail.

iran-hrm – Iran hanged six men convicted of stealing 10kg of gold jewelry using cold weapons, the state media reported.

radiozamaneh – On 17 June, Iranian security forces attacked a group of protesters who had gathered in front of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The group had gathered there to protest the detention of Nasrin Sotoudeh who was arrested earlier this week and is being held without charge.

alarabiya – An Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday that President Hassan Rouhani would appear before parliament on August 28 to answer questions on his government’s handling of Iran’s economic struggles, but an aide to Rouhani denied a date had been set.

alarabiya – The US States department announced on Friday that it is committed to expel Iran and its allied militias out of Syria.

radiofarda – Iran’s state TV has characterized the formation of the Iran Action Group at the US Department of State on Thursday August 16 “an aggressive policy,” and IRGC-linked Fars news agency called it “the action group against Iran.”

radiofarda – Iran’s Guardian Council (GC) has rejected a bill passed by parliament on combating money laundering as part of the standards set by the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF), GC’s spokesman said on Friday.

radiofarda – A protest rally against “financial corruption” held Thursday, August 16, at Iran’s major Shi’ite seminary in city of Qom, turned into a demonstration against President Hassan Rouhani.

radiofarda – Agents of the Islamic republic’s Ministry of Intelligence stormed the house of a prominent lawyer and human rights activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh, on Saturday, her husband has disclosed.