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Month: November 2019

Dangerous Air Pollution leads to School Closures In Tehran

Radiofarda - Dangerous air pollution has shut down kindergartens, elementary and special-needs schools in Iran’s capital Tehran and surrounding towns…

Proposal To Separate Prisons From Judiciary Fails In Iran

Radiofarda - Iranian parliament’s legal affairs commission has decided not to separate the country’s prison system from the Judiciary, a…

Saudi Condemns Iran ‘Deception’ Over Nuclear Program

AFP - The Saudi cabinet on Tuesday condemned what it called its rival Iran's "deception" over its nuclear program, after…

Singapore Threatens To Auction Off Chinese Tanker Violating Iran Sanctions

Radiofarda - A court in Singapore has given the owner of a tanker carrying Iranian liquid gas (LPG) a week…

Trump, Macron voice concern over Iran’s nuclear program

Al-Arabia - US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron on a phone call on Monday discussed Syria, Iran…

Iran Arrests Dozens During Protests Over Arab Poet’s Death

Iran-HRM - Dozens of Arab-Iranians have been arrested during protests in southwestern Iran that started Sunday following news on the…

Death toll in Northwest Iran Earthquake Rises to Eight

Iran-HRM - The number of people who lost their lives following the Friday earthquake that struck Iran’s northwest provinces has…

First Death Reported in Nationwide Protests Wracking Lebanon

VOA - A local official for a Lebanese political party was shot dead by soldiers trying to open a road…

IRAN: KURDISH ACTIVIST ARBITRARILY DETAINED: ZAHRA MOHAMMADI

Amnesty - Kurdish civil society activist Zahra Mohammadi, aged 29, has been arbitrarily detained since her arrest in Sanandaj, Kurdistan…

Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director

CHRI - Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami was transferred from Evin Prison in Tehran to Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj (west of the…