CHRI – Fifteen-year-old Adib Vai has been expelled from a school for gifted students in Karaj, west of Tehran, solely because he is a member of the banned Baha’i faith, his father told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Salam is a special school for smart children with branches all over the country. We enrolled my son there after …

Iran Human Rights – Iranian Twitter users have made the hashtag “#اعدام_نکنید” (stop executions) trend globally. As execution rates in Iran continue to rise and the death sentences of three protesters arrested in the nationwide November 2019 demonstrations was upheld by the Supreme Court, Iranians have taken to Twitter to make their voices heard by the world and Islamic Republic’s leaders by …

Al-Monitor – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said today that it is too soon to say whether the Iranian government’s position that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was targeted by mistake is true. “I want to clearly emphasize: It is early to say that the plane was shot down as a result of human error, as the Iranian side claims,” Kuleba said, …

PayvandNews- One fifth of the daily deaths in the country are related to coronavirus, which is alarming and worrisome, deputy minister of health has said. About 1,050 people die every day in the country, more than 200 of whom are among COVID-19 patients, IRNA quoted Iraj Harirchi as saying on Tuesday. Children’s COVID-19 ward for children at Mofid hospital in …

Shabtabnews – According to DorrTV news sources, The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, on the orders of the Supreme National Security Council and the government of Hassan Rouhani, has called for a comprehensive study of the Islamic Republic’s withdrawal from the NPT. The Islamic Republic acceded to the Protocol on 18th December 2003, during the presence of …

Radiofarda – A news website in Iran reported Monday that an indictment has been issued for the former Deputy President for Iran for Women’s Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi. Hours later, Ms. Molaverdi issued an open letter to the head of Iran’s Judiciary demanding to know how the media is leaking news about her indictment while she has not been informed. On …

Radiofarda – A judicial official in Iran has threatened that knowingly spreading the coronavirus should be punishable by death, based on the Islamic principle of an eye for an eye. A local news website quoted the Deputy of the Justice Minister for Human Rights and International affairs, Mahmoud Abbasi as saying, “Someone who is fully aware of his infection and …

Al-Arabia – While considered non-negotiable and a “red line” by Tehran, Iran’s ballistic missile program is viewed as a source of destabilization and a threat to its neighbors in the region, especially Saudi Arabia. Iran’s most recent use of ballistic missiles goes back to January, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against …

Al-Arabia – Iran on Tuesday reported 179 new deaths from the novel coronavirus as authorities announced a decision to once more shutter some businesses in the capital to contain the virus’ resurgence. The reimposition of restrictive measures comes after the government had progressively lifted them from April to reopen its sanctions-hit economy. For more on coronavirus, visit our dedicated section. …

Radiofarda – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s order to treat those jailed for protests in Iran in November 2019, may in fact have been a call for maximum pressure on inmates in security prisons. The Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) on July 11 featured a letter by Hossein Reyhani, an Iranian who has been in jail since the …