Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Spokesperson for Iranian Judiciary, Gholamhossein Esmaeili, said earlier today that the two juveniles who were executed on April 25, 2019, were not under 17 at the time of committing the crime. “Juveniles cannot commit these kinds of crimes,” he said in a press conference with the presence of Iranian media representatives. In response to his …

CHRI – Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International Labor Day) and May 2 (Iran’s Teachers’ Day) remain in detention without access to legal counsel, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The protests, which also occurred in several other Iranian cities, were primarily against the government’s refusal to …

CHRI – Two months after being appointed by the supreme leader as Iran’s new chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi has appointed a staunch supporter of cruel and inhumane forms of Sharia (Islamic law) punishments as the new prosecutor general of Tehran. On April 29, 2019, state-funded media outlets reported that Ali Alghasi-Mehr (also spelled Al-Qasi-Mehr), the former chief justice of Fars Province, had been …

Al-Monitor – On the anniversary of the US administration’s pullout from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is set to announce a series of countermeasures that have been the subject of much speculation in Iran in the past few days. Rouhani’s May 8 televised statement will come against the backdrop of the widespread US “maximum pressure” campaign …

PayvandNews – Iran’s currency reached its lowest level against the U.S. dollar in the past seven months, according to reports from Iran on Tuesday, May 7. Foreign exchange websites reporting virtually live on actual free market rates, say that the Iranian rial reached a low of 154,000 against the greenback. “Exporting Democracy with Aircraft Carrier”(source: Iranian daily Hamdeli)Related Article: Bolton’s War with …

Radiofarda – In a closed-door session on Monday, May 6, the majority of lawmakers in Iran’s parliament opposed raising fuel prices, putting the cash-strapped Rouhani government in in a tight spot. “Majles has decided to oppose raising gasoline prices,” just for the sake of preventing fuel smuggling Speaker Ali Larijani announced, adding, “Majority of the MPs believe that the only …

Radiofarda – The spokesman of the Islamic Republic Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) dismissed on Monday, May 6, the White House national security adviser’s latest comment on Iran as an “amateurish use of a routine event.” A day earlier, the White House had announced that the United States was sending an aircraft carrier strike group and Air Force bombers to …

Radiofarda – Videos published on social media in recent days showing children dancing to the music of a famous pop star in a few schools in Iran has outraged conservatives. Sasy Mankan is a pop singer who left Iran a decade ago and resides in the United States, but his music was played during some school events and students began …

Radiofarda – A lawmaker in Iran has revealed that the intelligence and communication ministries joined forces to create and manage diversionary social media apps to woo people away from secure international platforms. Iran banned the popular Telegram messaging app last year after mass protests and later two new apps appeared, labelled Talagram (golden telegram in Persian) and Hotgram, trying to attract users …

Radiofarda – Iran is about to partially resume parts of its nuclear program that were suspended within the frameworks of the 2015 nuclear agreement with the world powers, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Iranian stat TV on Monday May 6 quoted “an official close to the JCPOA Supervisory Board” as having said that although the activities to …