Iran Human Rights – An Iranian woman who according to her family was a rape victim, is scheduled to be hanged at Sepidar Prison in Ahwaz (Ahvaz) early Wednesday morning, December 4. The woman who is identified as Somayeh Shahbazi Jahroei (33) is sentenced to death for murdering a man six years ago. According to one of Somayeh’s relatives, “the …

CHRI – Young Man Killed by Bullet While Stuck in Traffic During Protest in Isfahan Reports of bystanders who were killed by security forces in Iran because they happened to be near protestors continue to mount with the lifting of the state-imposed internet shutdown and news blackout in the country. Arsham Ebrahimi, age 21, died of a bullet wound on …

CHRI – Iran’s security officials have warned the family of Erfan Faeghi, a 21-year-old who died from a bullet wound to the heart on November 17 in south Tehran when he unintentionally drove near a street protest, that if they speak to the media, his body would be exhumed and moved to another location, the Center for Human Rights in …

CHRI – December 3 Marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities The International Day of Persons with Disabilities, begun by the UN in 1992, is observed each year on December 3. Its aim is to “promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development, and to increase awareness of the situation of persons …

CHRI – Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that the state-imposed internet shut-down has been lifted, the full extent of the state’s brutal crackdown is being revealed and Iranians have been reacting with outrage and …

Al-Monitor – In a series of remarks rarely heard from Iran’s political elites, First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri lamented Washington’s onerous sanctions and how they are tightening the noose around Iran’s economy. “The Americans have in the true sense blocked the key bottlenecks of our country’s economy,” Jahangiri told an exports conference in Tehran Dec. 2. “Even allies fear buying Iranian oil” …

Radiofarda – An outspoken reformist member of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) says security forces have “preemptively” arrested a number of students who have not taken part in recent protests in Iran. Mahmoud Sadeqi (Sadeghi) said in an interview with the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on Monday, December 2 that the arrests have been made illegally and the authorities should …

lobelog.com – Two weeks after the eruption of protests in Iran due to the rise in petrol prices, the unrests may have subsided but discontent is still on the rise, like the clam before the storm which may erupt once more in the not so distant future. Without prior notice, petrol prices were increased in Iran at midnight on Friday …

Radiofarda – U.S. President Donald Trump has accused Iran of killing “big numbers” of protesters following unofficial casualty numbers in the hundreds that Tehran characterized as “utter lies.” “Iran is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of people right now as we speak, that it why they cut off the Internet so people can’t see what is going on,” Trump said …

For the first time in more than two weeks, the monopolized state-run TV in Iran has aired a report on killing protesters in at least ten cities across the country. Meanwhile, the report has also confirmed that the Islamic Republic security forces opened fire on a group of protesters in the marshlands of Mahshahr in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan. …