Radiofarda – Political activists in Mashhad in northeast Iran told Radio Farda on Sunday August 11 that at least 10 dissident individuals have been arrested in the city for protesting against a 13-year jail sentence for another activist, Kamal Jafari Yazdi. File – This undated photo shows some of those who signed a letter demanding Ayatollah Khamenei to resign. Javad …

Radiofarda – A video showing a nurse being beaten up by a doctor in a private hospital in Shiraz, has elicited protests by the Iran’s Nursing Organization, an officially recognized professional council. Radio Farda cannot verify the authenticity of the video circulated on social media related to the incident, but a representative of the nursing group in Shiraz has said …

Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reacted to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s tweet in which he had called the U.S. Middle East peace initiative (The Peace of the Century) a crime against the Palestinians and humanity. Khamenei had tweeted on the occasion of Haj pilgrimage and Eid al-Adha, “The plot of ‘Deal of the Century’, which …

Radiofarda – Iran’s foreign ministry has said U.S. officials are waiting “in vain” for telephone contact with Iranian officials. Abbas Mousavi, the foreign ministry spokesman emphasized in a press briefing on Sunday that Iran “Will not take the first step for a negotiation in which international law and rules are not respected”. Mousavi added that sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, …

Radiofarda – In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, 8,700 Iranian citizens have called for lifting the house arrest of Iran’s Green Movement leaders, confined to their homes since 2011 without trial. Twice speaker of Majles (Islamic Republic’s parliament), mid-ranking cleric Mehdi Karroubi, ex-Prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard have been under house arrest since February …

Radiofarda – A forty-year-old Iranian woman, Negar Ghodskani pleaded guilty on August 9, in Minnesota to facilitating the unlawful procurement and export of U.S.-origin goods to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Federal prosecutors say Ghodskani and other conspirators set up a front company in Malaysia to illegally obtain restricted U.S. technology from American companies. One of these companies is based …

Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities can seize any ship, any time, even if accompanied by American or British forces, claimed a senior Iranian naval commander on Sunday. Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy, made the claim in an interview with al-Mayadeen TV Channel. Tangsiri was sanctioned by the US on June 24, along with …

Iran-HRM – At least two people were killed, and four others wounded after an army air force in the northern Mazendran province opened fire on locals protesting attempts to confiscate their lands. The Fars news agency, affiliated to the regime’s terrorist-designated Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) quoted local sources as saying that the clash started over a dispute about land ownership in …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged for murder charges at Qom Prison last Monday. According to IHR sources, on the morning of August 5, a prisoner was hanged at Qom Prison (also known as Langeroud prison). His name was Rasoul Ghadermolla, 31, from Qorveh city, Kurdistan province. “Rasoul was arrested for killing a man during a fight …

gatestoneinstitute.org – For several reasons, the “nuke deal” did not provoke the popular explosion in Iran that some analysts expected. To start with, no one had signed that deal, which meant it was neither a treaty nor a binding international agreement but a wish list. Because this is a Russian text, in the preparation of which other littoral states played …