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Month: December 2020

Will Iranian Moderates’ Attempt To Deal With Biden On Nuclear Agreement Be Sabotaged?

RFL/RE - New Iranian legislation requiring officials to boost uranium enrichment within the country's controversial nuclear program is seen as…

Iran Violating 2015 Nuclear Deal Again With Use Of Advanced Centrifuges, Reuters Reports

RFL/RE - Iran plans to install more advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at an underground plant in breach of its troubled deal…

Kurdish Citizen Sentenced to 2 Years’ Prison After Being Flogged

Iran-HRM - An appeals court in the western city of Sanandaj has sentenced Kurdish citizen Foad Enayati, to two years…

Resolution of Gulf Dispute Seems Within Reach, Saudi Arabia Says

VOA - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed "within reach" after…

Iran: Adopt Draft Law to Protect Women

(HRW) – Iran should address gaps in its long-awaited draft law on violence against women that offers limited protections for survivors of domestic…

Iranian Authorities Go After More Members of Writers Association

CHRI - Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another blow to the Iranian Writers Association, an…

Biden: ‘Hard to tell’ how scientist’s killing would impact Iran negotiations

Al-Monitor - President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to reenter the landmark Iranian nuclear deal if Tehran comes back into full…

Iran’s COVID-19 death toll near 50,000

The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 13,341 COVID-19 infections and 347 deaths due to the disease in the past 24…

IOPHR’s statement regarding the continuing and unacceptable violation of the rights of Iranian Sunni citizens.

Shabtabnews - In a new statement IOPHR condemned: "The continuing and unacceptable violation of the rights of Iranian Sunni citizens…

USCIRF Commissioner: “Shame on #Iran for summoning Nasrin Soutudeh back to prison rather than letting her medical care continue.”

Shabtabnews - In a twitter statement USCIRF Commissioner stated: " USCIRF Commissioner @JohnnieM: "Shame on #Iran for summoning Nasrin Soutudeh…