X

Month: April 2019

Finland Cozies Up to Iran

gatestoneinstitute - Just a little more than ten years ago, Finland's flagship telecommunications company, Nokia, was found to have sold…

Iran Executions: Man Hanged for Drug Offenses

Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A man was hanged at Kerman Central Prison on drug charges yesterday. This is the…

Iran Executions: Man Hanged at Babol Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A man was executed on murder charges at Babol Prison on April 24. According to…

Iran Sets Stage for More Crackdowns on University Students’ Online Activities

CHRI - University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical”…

Bill to restrict consecutive MP terms raises debate in Iran

Al-Monitor - A controversial bill in the Iranian parliament seeks to ban its members from running for office after serving…

Zarif criticized for showing ‘weakness’ in proposing Iran-US prisoner swap

Al-Monitor - During an April 29 speech addressing Iran’s police force commanders, Qasem Soleimani of the Quds Force - the foreign…

Khouzestan Province Labor Activists Transferred To Tehran’s Evin Prison

Radiofarda - The labor union for the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill workers says workers' representative Esmail Bakhshi and labor movement…

Iran’s Rulers Speak Of More Cyberspace Restrictions As Conditions Worsen

Radiofarda - Controlling social networks at the time of crises is a "must" that should "seriously be considered," says the…

Tehran Allocates Pest Control Budget Two Months After Swarms of Locusts Attack Iran

Radiofarda - Some two months after massive swarms of locusts attacked southern Iran, the government allocated a 10 billion tuman budget…

Soleimani Says Negotiations ‘In Current Conditions’ Would Be Pure ‘Surrender’

Radiofarda - The commander of Iran’s extra-territorial military Qods force, Qassem Soleimani told a gathering in Tehran on Monday that…