Iran-HRM – The head of the Khuzestan Health Center said that they had witnessed 34 cases of Hepatitis A in the towns of Masjed Soleiman and Izeh.
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White House Warns Iran About Potential Attacks By Proxies On U.S. Facilities
RFL/RE – The United States has warned Iran about any potential attacks by its proxies and allies against U.S. facilities in the Middle East.
Read More »Iran Relocates Consulate In Iraq’s Basra After Attack
RFL/RE – Iran’s ambassador to Iraq opened a new consulate for his country in the southern city of Basra, four days after protesters burned down the old mission.
Read More »Turkey Appeals For Idlib Cease-Fire At UN Security Council
RFL/RE – Turkey has called for international backing for a cease-fire in the last rebel stronghold in Syria, telling the UN Security Council that an all-out assault on Idlib Province will result in a “major humanitarian catastrophe.”
Read More »Iran Nuclear Chief Hopes Deal Will Survive
VOA — Iran’s nuclear chief said Tuesday he hopes Tehran’s landmark atomic deal with world powers will survive President Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from it, warning the Islamic Republic’s program stands ready to build advanced centrifuges and further enrich uranium.
Read More »Forty Days Later, Whereabouts of Imprisoned Dervish Amin Alizadeh Still Unknown
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – The family of Amin Alizadeh–a member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who was arrested in Tehran on June 29th with fellow Dervish Jalal Mousavi–has now been in the dark about his whereabouts for 40 days.
Read More »Prisoner of Conscience Atena Daemi Rebukes Authorities, Eulogizes Executed Kurds
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – From the walls of Evin Prison, detained civil rights activist Atena Daemi has written a letter in response to the executions of Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman Moradi, and Zanyar Moradi, three Iranian Kurdish political prisoners who were hanged to death in secret on Saturday, September 8th.
Read More »Urban Exposé: the lost voices of Iran’s foragers
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – For years, piles of giant parcels could be seen on the street corners of almost every Iranian metropolis, each representing the bounty of a few hours of foraging. A morning stroll in the city reveals “dumpster divers” hunched over almost every visible waste bin, toiling in the day at what used to be a …
Read More »Prisoner Hanged to Death Without Warning
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Kamal Ahmadnejad, a prisoner held on death row in Miandoab Prison in northwestern Iran, was precipitously executed in the early morning of Monday, September 10th, 2018.
Read More »From Evin Prison, Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Condemns Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners
CHRI – In a letter from Iran’s Evin Prison, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has condemned the judiciary’s execution of three Kurdish prisoners on September 8, 2018, despite serious concerns regarding the use of torture, forced confessions and denials of access to counsel in all their cases.
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