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Month: September 2018

Merchant Strikes Sparked by Recent Executions Lead to Backlash and Arrests

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Kurdish merchants in Iran’s Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan provinces have shut down…

At Least Six Ahwazi Arab Citizens Arrested For Reasons Undisclosed

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – A number of Ahwazi Arab citizens were arrested by intelligence agents Wednesday, September 12th…

Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Saravan Prison

Iran Human Rights - One prisoner was executed at Saravan Prison on murder charges. (more…)

Iran Executions: Man Hanged in Public

Iran Human Rights  - A man who was sentenced to death on the charge of harassing and murdering a 13-year-old…

Iran Executions and the Cycle of Violence: Victim’s Brother Murdered in Retaliation for the Execution of the Murderer

Iran Human Rights - After the execution of one of his relatives, a 38-year-old man stabbed the victim’s brother to…

Families Supporting Children With Disabilities Struggle to Obtain Supplies in Iran’s Troubled Economy

CHRI - The mothers of two children with spinal disabilities in Tehran Province told the Center for Human Rights in…

Iran missile strike opens door to escalation with Kurdish armed groups

Al-Monitor - The patience of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) with Iranian Kurdish groups operating from northern Iraq was wearing…

Ahmadinejad’s right-hand man sentenced to prison

Al-Monitor - Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, who was once accused of being part of a “deviant current” in the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…

PHOTOS: Drought in Iran’s North Khorasan province

PayvandNews - Drought in Iran's North : (more…)

Tehran Summit and the imminent destruction of Idlib

Al-Arabia As the Tehran summit was taking place on September 7, with Iran, Russia and Turkey set to decide the…