Radiofarda – Despite repeated warnings over the spread of novel coronavirus, roads leading to resorts in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran were reopened March 7 by government decision. Mazandaran, by the Caspian Sea, is one of the favorite destinations for domestic tourism. Earlier on Thursday, the Governor of Mazandaran had declared that, as a precaution all roads leading to the …

Iran-HRM – Shocking evidence contradicts regime’s downplay of Iran’s COVID-19 crisis. Iran’s Ministry of Health said Saturday afternoon Mach 7 that coronavirus has claimed 145 lives from among 5823 Iranians who have been infected by the COVID-19 virus. Gorgan, N #Iran – Sayad Hospital Video shows the hallway of Sayad Hospital filled with beds with #COVID19 patients. Other hospitals in …

Iran-HRM -While numerous reports and videos from Iran indicate severe shortage of medical supplies, the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is stockpiling masks and disinfectants and is selling them at 20 times their price to the public. On March 2, the Iranian regime’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki said in a letter to the Minister of Industry, “The problem of health masks is …

RFL/RE – Days after winning the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof could end up in prison over his work, which has been branded by Iranian judiciary officials as “propaganda against the state.” But he refuses to back down.“I do my best, and the effort is what makes one happy and satisfied, the feeling …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two men, including a disabled person, were hanged on Saturday, February 29, at Mashhad Central Prison (also known as Vakil-Abad prison). According to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, death-row prisoners Ahad (Vahid) Salehi and Nader Hosseini were hanged on February 29, 2020, at the central prison of Mashhad city, Khorasan Razavi province. Both were sentenced …

gatestoneinstitute.org – After weeks of debate, the outgoing Majlis had rejected the budget with a clear majority. The “Supreme Guide”, however, needed the budget to release funds for the various military and security organizations on which the regime is built not to mention stipends for Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah, the Houthis, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Iraqi militias and kindred groups across the globe. …

TIME – One afternoon, on a late spring day in 2018, a group of officers from the Iranian Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Intelligence came and arrested me while I was home alone. They took me to Evin Prison in a green taxi. In absentia, I had been sentenced to five years in prison for my work as a …

Radiofarda – China says that nearly all of its new confirmed coronavirus cases outside of the epicenter city of Wuhan have originated abroad, including many who arrived on flights from Iran. The authorities on March 7 said mainland China had 99 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections for the day, down from 143 cases a day earlier and the lowest …

Radiofarda – Radio Farda has learned from a source very closely involved with Iran’s Coronavirus Combat Taskforce that the official death toll only covers deaths that have been confirmed by coroners, not the tally reported by hospitals across the country. The death toll is much higher, “at least twice as high, maybe even more” according to the source. “The discrepancy …

Radiofarda – The deputy commander of the Iranian army’s ground force says the army has set up a makeshift hospital in Qom and has been helping with disinfection efforts in the city as the situation of coronavirus outbreak worsened in Qom, a critical point of the outbreak in Iran. Arman newspaper in Tehran quoted Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi on Thursday …