Iraq’s Top Shi’ite Cleric Urges Selection of New PM With No Outside Ties
VOA - Iraq's top Shi'ite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on the country's political leaders Friday not to…
Month: December 2019
The Economy of the Suppression of Gas Protests in Iran
Radiozamaneh - Iran is facing the most brutal suppression in its recent history which started with lowering of gasoline subsidies,…
Top UN Human Rights Official: “Clear Violations” of International Norms on Use of Force in Iran and “Serious” Human Rights Violations Against Protestors
CHRI – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet issued statement on December 6, in which she “expressed alarm” over the…
Iran: Man Hanged at Yazd Prison
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner was hanged at the central prison of the central Iranian city of Yazd…
Iran: Prisoner Hanged in Zahedan City
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner was hanged at the central prison of the Iranian southeastern city of Zahedan…
Is Iran’s long-serving speaker retiring from politics?
Al-Monitor - For weeks, speculation had been rife that Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani was deliberating whether to run for reelection, and on…
Russia Halts Work At Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility
PayvandNews - Russian state nuclear company Rosatom has suspended work on modernizing a unit of Iran's Fordow nuclear complex due…
More support needed for refugee education in Iran
unhcr.org - This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be…
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey – review
Guardian.com - When Mikhal Dekel was a child she would sometimes wake up at night to find her father, Hannan, in the…
International Cheetah Day: Running fast toward extinction
PayvandNews - Asiatic cheetah, the planet's fastest mammal, are facing extinction as their population has dramatically shrank to less than…