Iran-HRM – More details are leaking out every day on the slaughter of defenseless people and crimes against humanity committed during Iran protests in November. December 17, 2019FacebookTwitterEmail Recent news and reports from Iran indicate that intelligence agents and security forces fired coup de graces to the wounded protesters taken to Fatemeh Zahra Hospital in Robat Karim, Tehran. An eye-witness …

LA Times—  When Iranian authoritiesrecently imposed a near-total internet blackout for almost a week to helpquell massive street protests, U.S.-based tech entrepreneur Nima Fatemi bolted into action. Fatemi and other security experts have been finding ways around Iranian censorssince 2009, when authoritiesfirst blocked social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook as a means to curb unrest after a disputed presidential election. Yet …

Shabtabnews – Ambassador Sam Brownback , the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom , yesterday expressed his grave concerns in regards to the health and condition of the Gonabadi Sufi’s spiritual leader, Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh and hundreds of Sufi prisoners held in Iranian jails purely because of their faith. Concerned for health of #Gonabadi #Sufi leader Dr. Noor Ali …

Radiofarda – A member of Iran’s parliament has said in an Interview on Tuesday that Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli’s unscrupulous confession that protesters were shot in the head and “some were shot in the leg too” during the November protests, was shocking to lawmakers. In the interview with Emtedad website on Monday Mahmoud Sadeghi said that the shockingly nonchalant remark …

Radiofarda – Iran social media users in the past few days have shared shocking images of bodies recovered from dams, reservoirs and rivers that allegedly belong to November protesters more than a month after the deadliest unrest in the history of the Islamic Republic. The images show swollen bodies, many of them with hands tied. Most of the mind-boggling images …

Radiofarda – The number of people visiting national health centers in Iran has dropped 30% in the last Iranian calendar year (ending March 21, 2019), says the deputy head of the Salamat (Health) Insurance and Health Services, Kourosh Farzin. “Health services’ costs have increased in Iran so significantly that they are not proportional to the families’ income,” Farzin noted, adding, …

Radiofarda – First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said today that Iran’s oil exports have hugely declined due to U.S. sanctions but did not disclose how much oil is being exported now to keep it secret from those who are not “trusted to know”. Speaking at a ceremony at Tehran Chamber of Commerce Jahangiri said sanctions, structural problems in Iran’s economy, …

Radiofarda – In a statement released today 150 Iranian Doctors condemned the security forces’ harsh suppression of popular protests in November.The statement also says the regime is responsible for “Iranophobia both in the region and internationally”. “Regular and disguised military, law enforcement and security forces opened fire on the people and used the destruction and rioting of a few opportunists …

Radiofarda – Spokesperson of Iran’s presidential administration denied reports about the First Vice President suggesting resignation to President Hassan Rouhani. “The resignation of the president and the government has in no way been suggested and has no proponents”, Ali Rabiei said on Monday, December 16. Some websites affiliated with Iran’s hardliners had reported in recent days that First Vice President …

RFL/RE – The U.S. State Department has issued a sanctions advisory that warns “entities and individuals” of transferring two crucial steel-making inputs to Iran in its pursuit to deprive Tehran of revenue that could be used to promote the “regime’s malign behavior.”Issued on December 16, the alert says parties who transfer or export graphite electrodes and needle coke to Iran run …