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Month: January 2021

European Powers Press Iran to Back off Latest Nuclear Move

VOA - Germany, France and Britain pressed Iran on Saturday to back off the latest planned violation of its 2015…

Iranian forces in east Syria redeploy after airstrikes

AL-Monitor - Syria — Iranian forces and affiliated militias in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria carried out new redeployment and…

USCIRF Commissioner: ” Iran’s restrictions place the country among the world’s most notorious religious freedom violators.”

Shabtabenews - In a statement the USCRIF condemned the restrictions imposed by the Iranian regime on religious groups. https://twitter.com/USCIRF/status/1350180163372384256 The…

Family of Iranian Dissident Jailed Since 2001 Appeals for Help to Secure Parole

VOA - The family of a jailed Iranian dissident who is marking 20 years in Iran’s prison system without a…

Monopoly of the Guards: How Does a Military Organization Control the Iranian Tech Sector?

Iranwire - It began as a rumor but has now been confirmed: according to Iran’s own official media, Emad Edward…

Behrooz Mehregani: An Iranian Baha’i Martyr of War

Iranwire - Fourteen year-old Behrooz insisted on returning to Iran. He had refused to go to school for three days…

Wave of arrests in Kurdish cities – at least 26 detained or summoned this week

Iran-HRM - There was a wave of arrests of Kurdish citizens and activists over the past week in Kurdish cities or cities…

Navid Afkari’s Brothers, Vahid and Habib Remain in Solitary Confinement

Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Four months after the execution of Iranian wrestler, Navid Afkari in Shiraz, his two brothers,…

Iran: Baluch Prisoner Executed in Zahedan

Iran Human Rights - A Baluch prisoner who had apparently been sentenced to death on “drug-related” charges, has been executed…

Iran’s capital suffocating amid blame game over pollution

​Al-Monitor - Thick and stubborn clouds of hazardous emissions have blanketed the Iranian capital, Tehran, for four weeks in a…