Iran: 2 Child Offenders Executed
HRW - The execution of two children in southern Iran is an abhorrent violation of Iran’s human rights obligations, Human Rights…
Month: May 2019
IRAN: RELEASE DETAINED LABOUR RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
Amnesty - In the past year, since International Workers’ Day in 2018, Amnesty International has documented the arrests of hundreds…
Here’s how Iran wants to take its financial system on the blockchain
Al-Monitor - Over the past year or so, the technology arm of the Central Bank of Iran — the Informatics…
Iran intensifies nuclear diplomacy but says patience ‘running thin’
Al-Monitor - As part of a reshuffle inside Iran's Foreign Ministry, veteran diplomat Bahram Ghassemi was recently appointed as the country's…
Tehran’s Policies Risk Iran’s Territorial Integrity
lobelog - In his conversations with American journalists during his recent visit to New York, as reported in The New…
Monir Farmanfarmaian, 96, Dies; Artist Melded Islam and the Abstract
NYT - Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, an Iranian artist whose mirror-encrusted geometric compositions drew on both Islamic architecture and the abstractions…
Iran’s Changing of the Guards
foreignpolicy.com - On April 21, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) got a new leader: Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, who…
Police Arrest At Least 35 Workers, 2 Reporters In May Day Protest In Tehran
Reports from Tehran say police have violently dispersed a Labor Day demonstration in front of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) in…
Iran Again Voices Support For Maduro And Calls For Talks
Radiofarda - Iran has reacted to the flare up of tensions and violence in Venezuela by reiterating its support for…
Is U.S. Ready For A Fight With Iran?
Radiofarda - The United States announced last week that it would not renew sanctions waivers it has granted countries that…