iranwire.com – “Why should I say yes?” Many mothers are faced with this question from their little girls, who want to know why marriage is a good thing. Child marriage has many opponents in Iran, including in parliament, where representatives in the past have tried unsuccessfully to change the law and stop the practice. However, one by one, the Guardian …

iranwire.com – After two weeks of 70 percent of the city being locked down, the alert level in Tehran was downgraded from red to orange on Saturday, December 5. The change meant that traffic on thoroughfares and on city streets increased, mainly due to the fact that many businesses have been allowed to reopen since the capital is no longer …

iranwire.com – Iranian authorities arrested Nahid Taghavi, a 66-year-old architect and Iranian-German dual national, at her home in Tehran on October 16 this year. In an interview with The Guardian‘s Simon Wintour, her daughter expressed fears for her mother’s health and frustration with the German authorities for the slow progress to date.  Mariam Claren’s last communication with her 66-year-old mother, Nahid Taghavi, included …

RFL/RE – Britain, France, and Germany say Iran’s apparent plan to install additional advanced centrifuges at its main nuclear enrichment facility is “deeply worrying” and contrary to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. “If Iran is serious about preserving a space for diplomacy, it must not implement these steps,” the three powers, dubbed the E3, said in a joint statement …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Hamed Qareh Oghlani, born on July 8, 1986, residing in Urmia and confined at Urmia Central Prison is sentenced to death as well as 13 years and three months of prison term. The decree was imparted to Hamed Qareh Oghlani on Monday, November 30, 2020. As the communique mentioned one judge had issued a death sentence …

Iran-HRM – A group of political prisoners of ward 8, Evin Prison, published a statement pointing to the re-spread of coronavirus in the country and the prisons, warning about a potential death tsunami at prisons. The statement reads:“As we predicted, the coronavirus reached a new peak in fall dragging into death more people on daily basis; the reason: the authorities …

Al-Arabia – Any new nuclear deal with Iran must prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, said the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef al-Hajraf on Sunday. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Al-Hajraf, who represents the six-member GCC, said Iran’s continues to destabilize the region and violate UN resolutions, …

iranwire.com – Shahindokht Molaverdi, President Hassan Rouhani’s former vice president for women and family affairs and his former aide in citizens affairs, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The charges against her include “revealing classified information and documents with the aim of undermining national security,” “propaganda against the regime” and “promotion of corruption, prostitution and encouraging …

Iranwire.com – United States Congress is preparing new legislation to bring sanctions against the Badr Organization, one of the largest Iranian proxy militias in Iraq. The bill, a copy of which The Washington Free Beacon has had exclusive access to, claims that the organization was responsible for the deadly attacks that targeted Americans stationed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Calls for the new …

Al-Arabia – Iran is sending its biggest fleet yet of tankers to Venezuela in defiance of US sanctions to help the isolated nation weather a crippling fuel shortage, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some of the flotilla of about 10 Iranian vessels will also help export Venezuelan crude after discharging fuel, the people said, asking not to …