USCIRF Releases Report on the Anti-cult Movement and Religious Regulation in Russia and Central Asia
Shabtabnews - USCIRF Releases Report on the Anti-cult Movement and Religious Regulation in Russia and Central AsiaWashington, DC – The…
Month: July 2020
Two Detained Award-Winning Iranian Students Interrogated ‘In Public’
Radiofarda - In an unprecedented move, the Islamic Republic intelligence agents have interrogated two detained university students in a public…
Iran arrests about 30 following Behbahan protests
Al-Arabia - Iran has arrested about 30 people following the anti-government protests that broke out in the southwestern city of…
Coronavirus: 25 million in Iran infected with COVID-19, says Rouhani
Al-Arabia - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and…
Iran Says It Has Sent Black Box Of Downed Ukrainian Airliner To France For Analysis
RFL/RE - Iran says it has sent the black boxes of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which crashed shortly after…
Iranians Angered by Faltering Economy Stage Rare Protest
VOA- Iranians angered by their government’s handling of a faltering economy staged a rare protest in a southwestern city on…
Police Chief in Iran Vows Heavy-Handed Crackdown on Protests
Iran-HRM - The police chief in Behbahan, on Friday vowed to deal “decisively” with further protests, a day after security forces fired…
Charges Against Iranian Writer Mehdi Salimi; Repression of Civil Society
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Mehdi Salimi, a writer and translator, who was arrested on July 7, at his parents'…
Iran’s Mullahs Celebrate More Rewards from the ‘Nuclear Deal’
gatestoneinstitute.org - On June 30, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged the United Nations Security Council to extend…
Iran’s Khamenei nips Rouhani impeachment in the bud
A televised address by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the country’s new parliament July 12 covered a wide range of…