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Month: November 2020

Weekly Review of Censorship: How a Reporter-Interrogator Tried to Steal a Hashtag

iranwire.com - Over the past week Iranians have taken to Twitter en masse to share their personal accounts of what…

Former Iranian PM Mousavi, under house arrest, tests positive for COVID-19

Al-Monitor - Former Iranian Prime Minister and opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife have contracted COVID-19 while under…

Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019 killings – new investigation

Amnesty - The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale…

Khamenei and the US: No Audacity for Peace, No Courage for War

iranwire.com - More than once before his death in January 2017, the former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani asserted that he…

A Year After the Bloody Protests, Iran Still Tries to Control the Price of Petrol

iranwire.com - November 2019 saw the bloodiest street protests in Iran’s modern history. Media agencies and human rights organizations around…

Series of Teen Suicides Shocks an Iranian City

iranwire.com - A spate of suicides among teenage students in the city of Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province has sparked fear in the…

Families of Iran’s Slain November 2019 Protesters Say Pursuit of Justice Thwarted by Govt’s Broken Promises

VOA - One year after Iranians began anti -government protests that drew the deadliest crackdown by security forces in decades,…

Intelligence Ministry Launches New Wave of Arrests to Fend off Iran Protests

Iran-HRM - The clerical regime’s Intelligence Ministry has launched a new wave of arrests in Iran to fend off the…

Iran: Prisoner Fakhreddin Dastyar Executed on Drug Charges

Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner on death row for charges of “transporting and possessing drugs” has been executed…

IOPHR Statement in regards to commemorating the brutal massacre that followed the November 2019 peaceful protests!

Shabtabnews - In a statement commemorating the massacre that followed the November 2019 peaceful protests IOPHR stated : "It should…