CHRI – Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a letter to her 12-year-old son, Nima, explaining why she and her husband—also detained in Iran’s Evin Prison—can’t be there for his first day of school.

CHRI – The families of environmentalists who have been detained for nearly eight months in Iran on unsubstantiated accusations of espionage have sent a letter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling for the detainees to be released.

CHRI —On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages and International Week of the Deaf, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian government to officially recognize sign language and introduce legislation guaranteeing deaf and hard of hearing citizens access to professional sign language interpreters.

Al-Monitor – “Mr. Rouhani! Stand firm!” Iranian hard-line daily Kayhan advised President Hassan Rouhani, reminding him that Iran is the “creditor” in its dispute with the United States. “With a strong and affirmative speech, the president should elucidate … the black record of the Great Satan,” the paper wrote, insisting that this was the Iranian public’s expectation.

Al-Monitor – While Iranians in the province of Khuzestan held funeral processions for the victims of a terrorist attack on a military parade, there still seems to be a great deal of confusion in the media as to who was behind the attack, causing tension between Iran and a number of European countries. 

PayvandNews – Less than a month after Iran’s consulate in Basra was attacked, a group of terrorists claiming to be members of the Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz attacked a military parade in the capital of Iran’s Khuzestan province, killing 25 people and wounding many more. When the Basra consulate incident took place , some commentators in Iran speculated …

Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a “weakness of intellect.”

Radiofarda – The Iranian currency, rial, took yet another plunge Tuesday morning September 25, and the rate of exchange for the US dollar in Tehran rose to over 160,000 rials , in an apparent reaction to the lack of a prospect for rapprochement between Iran and the United States, and as EU’s effort to save the nuclear deal with Tehran …

Radiofarda – Contradictory reports have thrown the fate of another pro-reform minister in President Hassan Rouhani’s administration in limbo.

Radiofarda – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against delivering an advanced air-defense system to Syria, saying it will further destabilize the war-torn region.