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Month: February 2021

Blinken Slams Putin For Crackdown On Navalny Supporters, Warns On Iran, China

RFL/RE - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the Biden administration is considering possible action against Russia, a…

How Khamenei Wrecked a Chance at Rapprochement With the US in the 1990s

Iranwire - In the second half of the year 1997, efforts by Iran's then-president to improve relations with the United…

Weekly Review of Censorship: A Baha’i Historian Jailed Because of His Faith

Iranwire - Touraj Amini, an Iranian writer and researcher of the Qajar era and Constitutional movement who is also a…

Nuclear Deal Hangs in Balance as Iran Intensifies Uranium Enrichment

VOA - The 2015 Iran nuclear deal was hailed by its signatories at the time as a triumph of global…

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

CHRI - Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the country’s struggling economy dominated media reports…

IRAN: JAILED IRANIAN KURDISH WOMAN TORTURED: ZEYNAB JALALIAN

Amnesty - Ministry of Intelligence agents are torturing Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian by deliberately denying her health care to…

Khamenei.com: Disenfranchising Parliament by Violating MPs’ Immunity

Iranwire - Exploiting unelected institutions to advance his policies has become normal for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. One of the…

Wave of Executions of Baluch Iranians Horrifies Campaign Groups

Iranwire - Some 21 Baluch citizens were executed in the cities of Mashhad, Isfahan and Zahedan between December 19, 2020…

Guest Post: Chinese Banker’s Execution Leaves Us With More Questions than Answers

Iranwire - Jianli Yang, a mathematician and human rights activist, survived China's Tiananmen massacre in 1989, after which he left…