iranhumanrights – In a letter from Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been held since October 2015, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi asked Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi why his requests for furlough have been repeatedly denied while those around him continue to be allowed to go on temporary leave. “For the past four years, while enduring punishment for a …

radiofarda – A cleric who promotes Islamic medicine and campaigns against Western medicine has claimed that a court sentenced three doctors to lashing, after he complained about them. The cleric, Abbas Tabrizian who created outrage in January after publicly burning Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, wrote on his social media account that he lodged a complaint of being insulted by the …

radiofarda – A hardliner Iranian politician and a senior member of Revolutionary Guard commander has said that after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iran “was after an excuse to attack Israel”, which he said was involved in the killing of the Qods Force commander. Mohsen Rezai (Rezaee), who is the Secretary of the Islamic Republic Discernment Council told the Lebanese …

radiofarda – After nearly two years behind bars, three Sufi women were released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison on Saturday, February 8. The three women belong to the Gonabadi dervish’s sect, whose leader was persecuted, and his followers protested his house arrest in 2018. The Islamic Republic intelligence agents and security forces detained more than seventy female dervishes on February …

rferl.org – Iranian state television reports that Iran on February 9 failed in an attempt to launch an Iranian-made Zafar satellite into the Earth’s orbit. Ahmad Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Defense Ministry’s space program, told state TV that “the Zafar satellite did not reach orbit as planned” because it did not reach the necessary speed. It is at …

alarabiya – Nearly 550 Iraqis have been killed in protest-related violence since unprecedented anti-government demonstrations erupted in the capital and southern cities in October, the Iraqi Human Rights Commission said on Friday. Iraq’s health ministry confirmed the first protester shot dead on October 1 but clammed up thereafter. The Commission has since repeatedly complained that authorities declined its requests for …

radiofarda – The Head of Iran’s Space Organization on Saturday said launching the Zafar satellite into orbit has been delayed “in order not to sacrifice accuracy to swiftness” while the Spokesman of Iranian Defense Ministry’s Space Department maintained that the satellite will be launched “at the first opportunity when everything is prepared”. Morteza Barari who heads Iran’s Space Organization and …

radiofarda – Iran has a very strong Air Force despite limitations imposed on the country by the United States since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed at a gathering of Air Force commanders and staff on Saturday, February 8. “Since the revolution their aim was to stop us from having a strong air force … …

radiofarda – Canadian lawyers, who previously successfully sued Iran, are seeking class action status in a lawsuit on behalf of victims aboard a Ukrainian plane shot down over Tehran last month, looking for at least C$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) in compensation. The suit names Iran, its supreme leader, the elite Revolutionary Guards and others as defendants. Iran admitted its missiles …

radiofarda – Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell on Friday briefed US leaders on a trip to Iran aimed at easing tensions and discussed a US Middle East plan that he has denounced. On his first trip to Washington since assuming his position in December, Borrell met Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said afterward they discussed “everything.” The State Department …