Radiofarda – Alarming reports indicate an increasing number of university students are being detained and arrested in Iran, and many of them report inhumane treatment and even torture while in police custody.

Radiofarda – The final stage of a massive Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) military exercise kicked off October 1 in Iran’s western province of Kurdistan, where ethnic Kurds say their grazing lands were again purposefully targeted with munitions.

Shabtabnews – The trials of the Gonabadi dervishes and the issuance of heavy sentences during  short trials, which lasted several minutes for each Sufi, has aroused serious objections from the Sufis, their families and from protesting public opinion and the general legal community. 

Radiofarda – Iran’s Parliament has approved a bill to join the Convention against Funding Terrorism (CFT), amid heated debates between hardline MPs and Majles Speaker Ali Larijani, on Sunday October 7.

Radiofarda – At Iran’s initiative, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif “discussing global issues and cooperation in the energy sector”, ITAR-TASS reported.

Radiofarda – The United States will confront Tehran at the UN’s top court on Monday over billions in frozen assets, in a case that could deepen the Trump administration’s rift with international justice.

Radiofarda – After defending Serena Williams and twitting in support of Colin Kaepernick, Iran’s hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has zoomed in on the United Kingdom, lambasting London for meddling in the internal affairs of his country.

Al-Arabia – In an interview with Breitbart last month, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita spoke of how Iran “infiltrated” Morocco via book festivals and voiced his country’s support of the Trump’s administration policies towards Tehran and concluded with directly requesting help from the Trump administration to face Iran.

Iran-HRM – Because it attaches the adjective “Islamic” to all its organs and whatever action it takes, the Khomeinist regime in Iran is often described as a theocracy with Shi’ism as an ideological backbone. However, what if the adjective is misplaced, not to say misleading? What if specialists have failed to note the underlying current of tension between the Islamic …

Iran-HRM – On the eve of October 10 which marks the World Day against the Death Penalty, as a number of death row prisoners all over Iran, we announce the following: