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Month: February 2020

Activist teachers sentenced for participating in nationwide strikes

Radiofarda - To crack down on teachers’ nationwide protests in Iran, the clerical regime has been arresting and convicting activist…

Two prisoners hanged in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz

Iran-HRM - Two prisoners were hanged on Wednesday morning, February 12, 2020 in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz. The two prisoners…

Iran Election Campaign Starts With Thousands Barred From Standing

RFL/RE - The weeklong campaigning for Iran’s parliamentary elections kicked off with more than 7,000 candidates vying for the 290…

Iran Pulls Out All The Stops To Get An Apathetic Public To Vote

RFL/RE - Rising anti-government fervor, a biting economic crisis, and the absence of free and fair elections are likely to…

U.S. Grants Iraq Waiver To Buy Iranian Energy Supplies, But Sets Conditions

RFL/RE - The United States has granted a 45-day waiver to allow Iraq to continue to buy gas and electricity…

Facebook Removes Accounts In Russia, Iran With Alleged Intelligence Links

RFL/RE - Social-media giant Facebook on February 12 removed two unconnected networks of accounts, pages, and groups “engaging in foreign…

Qassem Soleimani: Iran’s Latest ‘King of Martyrs’?

gatestoneinstitute.org - Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani's successor as head of the Quds Force, has promised: "to continue martyr Soleimani's path with…

Iran, Not Saudi Arabia, Is to Blame for Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

gatestoneinstitute.org - Now, with the humanitarian crisis reaching a critical juncture with an estimated 80% of Yemen's 24 million population…

Iran government denies rumors of Rouhani resignation

Al-Monitor - The Iranian government dismissed the latest in a series of reports that President Hassan Rouhani is resigning from his…

IOPHR calls for added pressure to be placed on the Iranian regime, in regards to discovering the truth behind the shooting down of Ukrainian Flight 752

Shabtabnews - The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights(IOPHR) in a new statement called on the democratic governments, human rights…