VOA – The U.S. ambassador to Iran mistakenly told the shah in 1953 that Britain’s newly enthroned Queen Elizabeth II backed a plan to overthrow the country’s elected prime minister and America maintained the fiction even after realizing the error, historians now say.  The revelation, based on U.S. diplomatic cables cited by the historians, shows how America has struggled even …

Radiozamaneh – Iranian workers welcomed the New Year on March 21 with COVID-19 illness spreading and without a set adequate minimum wage. The conversations surrounding the minimum wage continued in April and May 2020 with workers struggling with earnings that do not correlate with their costs of living. The privatization of health and healthcare work continues on two fronts: increasing …

Shabtabnews- Following the State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom, which called out Iran’s human rights violations, there was a round table discussion on the Farsi speaking station Kalameh TV. In this program representatives of various Human rights organisations organisations gave an update on the human rights violations of the Iranian regimes. In this program Mr. Gharagozloo, The US …

Radiofarda – statement on Thursday the exiled Queen Farah Pahlavi sent her condolences to the families of two Iranians who committed suicide due to poverty this week. “With great regret, I was informed that fellow citizen Jahangir Azadi-Miyankouhi, a veteran of the eight-year war with Iraq [1980-1988], put an end to his life by self-immolation in front of the Martyrs …

Radiofarda – The spokesman of Iran’s foreign ministry, Abbas Mousavi tells the United States, “You will soon kneel in front of Iranian Nation”, in a tweet responding to U.S. officials. Abbas Mousavi on Friday tweeted in English attacking statements made recently by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook who had voiced satisfaction about the severe …

Radiofarda – The United States pledged to continue a withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, the two countries said on June 11 in a joint statement. The pledge came after the two countries held a strategic dialogue and after Iraqi lawmakers demanded that U.S. forces withdraw in the wake of a U.S. drone strike in January that killed a top …

Reuters -Cruise missiles used in several attacks on oil facilities and an international airport in Saudi Arabia last year were of “Iranian origin,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in a report seen by Reuters on Thursday. Guterres also said several items in U.S. seizures of weapons and related materiel in November 2019 and February 2020 were “of …

RFL/RE – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor against an Iranian judge whom the Paris-based media freedom watchdog accuses of being responsible for the “arrest and torture” of at least 20 journalists in 2013. In a Twitter post on June 11, RSF’s Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said that Gholamreza Mansouri was currently in Germany.“The prosecutor must …

RFL/RE – As a corpse sticks out from the back of a blazing car on a road in central Iran, a badly burned young Afghan who escaped the flames stumbles along the road.“Give me some water, I’m burning!” the migrant screams in pain.The harrowing minute-long video, which went viral on social media, shows a gruesome scene in which Iranian police are …

Iran-HRM – A family member of Ali Younesi, an Iranian student detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison, said that his brother has contracted coronavirus while in solitary confinement. In his tweet on Thursday Reza Younesi ​said in a phone call from prison after more than two and a half weeks his brother told the family that he had been seriously ill with …