Radiofarda – “It doesn’t matter to Iran who will win the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. Whoever comes to power in America has no choice other than surrender to the Iranian nation,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told onlookers at a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday. Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, fully covered Rouhani’s remarks at the meeting, mostly devoted …

VOA- Iran has made the imprisonment of a mother and her daughter who campaigned against its compulsory public veiling of women harsher – denying the daughter medical care and refusing to grant her mother a furlough for no apparent reason, according to an informed source. The source spoke to VOA Persian in an Oct. 16 interview from Iran, describing several …

VOA – Since his election in 2016, President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear agreement and imposed tough sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy. How might the relationship between Washington and Tehran change after the U.S. election on November 3? Henry Ridgwell reports.

VOA- What the FBI and national intelligence officials described as fake “Proud Boys” emails targeting voters in Florida and several other states came in waves on Tuesday. Several University of Florida students reported receiving them beginning in the morning, according to local media reports. Bennett Ragan, a recent University of Florida graduate, said in an interview with VOA that the …

(HRW) – Iranian judiciary authorities are prosecuting human rights defenders for reporting abuse in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Since September 2020, the authorities have brought charges against two imprisoned activists who had published letters alleging mistreatment.On October 18, Emtedad online news channel reported that in the previous week, authorities had charged Niloufar Bayani, an environmental conservationist serving a 10-year sentence after an unfair …

CHRI – Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Under Pressure to Make Forced “Confessions” Student Groups: Allegations Unfounded, State Building False Case Without Evidence Two honor students at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, who were both violently arrested by the security forces on April 10, 2020, have been in detention ever since without any announced charges—and are reportedly under …

Al-Monitor – At a meeting of the anti-coronavirus task force today, President Hassan Rouhani said that Tehran would be facing new restrictions. Rouhani praised the efforts of the various agencies working over the last eight months to combat the virus. He said that only 50% of government employees will report to work in the province of Tehran, one of the hardest-hit provinces in the country. …

Iran-HRM – With the increase of the public degradation of “thugs” on the streets of Iran, in what authorities are calling “maneuvers of power”, the regime has spread its repressive plans to other cities and provinces. In recent days regime officials announced the establishment of bases in various cities of Iran. On October 19, in a broadcast by the regime’s state-run television, Mohammad Reza …

Radiofarda – In Tehran, a court has upheld a sentence against Alireza Alinejad, the brother of the outspoken women’s rights activist’s Masih Alinejad, his attorney said. In Tehran, a court has upheld a sentence against Alireza Alinejad, the brother of the outspoken women’s rights activist’s Masih Alinejad, his attorney said. “Branch 36 of the Appeals Court in Tehran province has upheld eight-year jail …

Radiofarda – Family members of the passengers of the Ukrainian plane shot down by two Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ missile in January 2020 rallied in front of the Iranian International and Political Studies Center of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran. At the rally held on Tuesday morning, they demanded that a member of the victims’ families attend …