VOA – Iranian teachers have begun their fourth peaceful nationwide protest since October to demand better working conditions for their poorly paid profession and the release of jailed education activists. Iranian teachers join a nationwide teachers’ strike in the northwestern city of Marivan, March 4, 2019. They held protest signs calling for the release of detained teachers’ rights activists and …

CHRI – Environmentalist Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, a US permanent resident, was arrested on February 17, 2019, at his father’s home in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, a month after returning to the country from the United States, his sister informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Our parents, uncle and some repairmen were …

Al-Monitor – After 10 years as head of one of the most important, and repressive, institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani will step down as chief of the judiciary and be replaced by Ebrahim Raisi. Larijani will join other recent government semi-retirees as a member of the Expediency Council, an institution designed to resolve differences between …

Al-Monitor — Relations between Egypt and Iran have fluctuated greatly over the years — over the millennia, actually — and remain mutable today. The countries’ representatives exchanged pleasantries Feb. 12 when an Egyptian diplomatic delegation headed by Assistant Foreign Minister for Asian Affairs Khaled Sarwat attended a ceremony at the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Cairo to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. …

Guradian – The photographer Gohar Dashti was born in 1980 in Ahvaz, a city in south-west Iran, near the border with Iraq. For the first 10 years of her life, her home was a battlefield in the brutal war between the neighbouring states. She spent many childhood nights in an air-raid shelter and she looked on as the place that was all …

lobelog – An Argentine federal court on Thursday convicted several individuals of meddling with the official investigation into the South American country’s deadliest incident of terrorism, the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed more than 80 people. by Mike LaSusa The convictions further taint the credibility of the Argentine investigation, carried out with extensive U.S. …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Parliament on March 3 voted to prevent members from being reelected for fourth consecutive terms in a bid “to rejuvenate the parliament, to make it agile and facilitate the rotation of political elites.” However, the ratification has yet to be approved by the Guardian Council. If it receives final approval, the new legislation would limit the …

Radiofarda – The Netherlands said Monday it had recalled its ambassador from Tehran after Iran expelled two Dutch diplomats in an dispute over an alleged plot to assassinate regime opponents. Dutch authorities accused Iran in January of involvement in the murder of two dissidents on Dutch soil in 2015 and 2017, and the EU slapped sanctions on Tehran over the …

Radiofarda – The representative of Kerman in the Supreme Council of Provinces in Iran has said that slum dwelling has turned into a major problem in the city of Kerman. An undated photo showing slums in Kerman, Iran. Mehrdad Aminifar told ILNA, two-thirds of the population of Baft a town in Kerman province, or roughly 40,000 people out of 60,000 …

Radiofarda – The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran is complying with the 2015 deal with major world powers aimed at preventing the country from building nuclear weapons. Yukiya Amano made his assessment in a regular update to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors, confirming a confidential report distributed to member states last month. He said …