Radiofarda – Nearly two weeks after the controversy about the disappearance and possible death of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Iran has not reacted to the case.
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Teachers Strike Sees Classes Canceled Across Iran
Radiofarda – Iranian teachers went on strike October 14 and 15, holding sit-ins at elementary and high schools across the country to demand better pay and conditions and an end to the detention of education activists.
Read More »Iran’s New Breed Of Charities On Poverty Frontline
Radiofarda – At an outreach center in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning their sewing skills and rushing to fill an order for hospital uniforms.
Read More »Iran Dismisses Reports Of Suicide Bomb Threat At Ankara Embassy
Reuters – Iran dismissed reports on Monday of a suicide bomb threat at its embassy in Ankara, Iranian state television said, after a Turkish newspaper reported a planned attack on the building.
Read More »Iran Environmentalists In Prison For Months ‘Without Sufficient Evidence’
Radiofarda – Almost ten months after the detention of several Iranian environmentalists, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary says that no indictment has been issued for them.
Read More »Report: Iran Sentences Dual-National Man To Prison
Radiofarda – Iran’s judiciary spokesman is saying a court has sentenced a dual national man to eight and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of infiltration of important governmental bodies.
Read More »Iranian Political Prisoner Calls For Stop Of Death Sentence
Iran-HRM – On World Day Against Death Penalty Iranian political prisoner call for stop of death sentence
Read More »Member Of Iranian Military Arrested Over Ahvaz Parade Attack
RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have arrested a member of the country’s military in connection with last month’s deadly attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz, local media report.
Read More »Iran’s President Seeks to Downplay US Oil Sanctions
VOA — Iran’s president on Sunday tried to downplay U.S. sanctions targeting the country’s vital oil and gas sector that are set to be restored next month.
Read More »Christians Sentenced to Death Under Sharia Law
gatestoneinstitute.org – In response to the latest abuses against Christians, Amnesty International has initiated an “urgent action” appeal. It has called on the Iranian regime to “quash the convictions and sentences of Victor Bet-Tamraz, Shamiram Isavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari, as they have been targeted solely for the peaceful exercise of their rights to freedoms of religion and belief, …
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