Iranian Labor Activist Flogged, Detained for Celebrating May Day
Iran-HRM - Rasoul Taleb Moghaddam, a labor activist and member of the Syndicate of the Workers of Tehran and Suburbs…
Month: June 2020
Jailed, Ailing Iranian-Swedish Doctor’s Wife Says Iran Ignored His Release Appeals
VOA - The wife of an Iranian-Swedish medical doctor detained in Iran in 2016 and later sentenced to death for…
Iranian Lawmaker Says 230 People Were Killed In November Unrest
RFL/RE - A senior Iranian lawmaker said on June 1 that 230 people were killed in anti-government protests in Iran…
Venezuelan President Says He Will Visit Iran To Sign Energy Agreements
RFL/RE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other…
Women’s Boxing Banned In Iran’s Khuzestan Province
RFL/RE - Khuzestan has become Iran’s first province to officially ban women's boxing. The move comes just over a year…
Iran officials weigh in on US protests
Al-Monitor - In today's Iran media review, Iranian officials have called out the United States over its response to peaceful…
Two Commercial Flights Make Emergency Landings In Iran Due To Technical Issues
Radiofarda - Two Iran Aseman Airlines (IAI) flights had to make emergency landings in Iran due to technical issues at…
East Syria Strike Kills 5 Iran-Backed Fighters: Monitor
AFP -An air strike in eastern Syria on Sunday killed five non-Syrian fighters backed by Iran, a Britain-based war monitor…
Canada Continues Pressure On Iran To Hand Over Black Boxes Of Downed Airliner
Radiofarda - Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from a…
Iran’s Interior Minister Covers up November Protest Death Toll
Iran-HRM - Nearly seven months after Iranian authorities killed at least 1,500 protesters in November 2019, a senior regime official for the…