Iranwire – Nooshabeh Amiri, a journalist with more than four decades of reporting experience, is currently based in Paris and working on her third book, The Day I Emigrated. She began her career with Kayhan newspaper in the late 1970s, but like many of her colleagues lost her job within a year of the Islamic Revolution. She witnessed the execution of Rahman Hatefi, Kayhan’s …

VOA – Iranian rights activists based in Iran and in exile have marked International Women’s Day by drawing attention to some of the main hardships facing women in the Islamic republic, including violence directed at them by men and deepening unemployment in a coronavirus-hit economy.   “As a woman who grew up in the Islamic republic, I’m very much accustomed to the …

Iran-HRM – A teachers’ rights activist, who has been jailed in Iran since 2016 started a hunger strike on Sunday, March 8. Ismail Abdi, a union activist of teachers imprisoned in Evin Prison, has been denied phone calls after being taken to the prison’s ward 6. He has been transferred from ward 8 to ward 6 in recent days in …

gatestoneinstitute.org – China, pursuant to [its 14th Five-Year Plan]… will increase spending 7% per year to achieve “major breakthroughs” in areas of “frontier technology.” Specifically, the country, will devote resources to artificial intelligence; quantum information; semiconductors; brain science; genomics and biotech; clinical medicine and health; and deep space, deep sea, and deep earth. In addition to theft, [China’s leaders] adopted a …

Al-Monitor – The United States sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers across the Middle East on Sunday, renewing a show of force as attacks by Iran-linked groups in the region continue. The Stratofortress bombers took off from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota before linking up with aircraft from the Israeli, Saudi and Qatari air forces at different stages of …

Al-Monitor – The travel ban and arrest of one woman made headlines around the world last month after a new video surfaced of Princess Latifa in captivity. She was banned from traveling and placed under house arrest by her own father, Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in 2018. During the same month, the Iranian national women’s ski team left Tehran …

Reuters – Iran has quietly moved record amounts of crude oil to top client China in recent months, while India’s state refiners have added Iranian oil to their annual import plans on the assumption that U.S. sanctions on the OPEC supplier will soon ease, according to six industry sources and Refinitiv data.FILE PHOTO: A general view of Abadan oil refinery …

Shabtabnews – On the occasion of The international day for Women’s rights IOPHR issues a statement highlighting the plight of Iranian women and their struggles for human rights. The statement declares: “IOPHR notes while the Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace is rightly celebrated around the world, there are sadly more than forty million Iranian women who are still held …

Iranwire – International Women’s Day is an opportunity to highlight the challenges, suffering and hidden victories that women experience all over the world: from occupational inequalities to being sidelined in society, to having to fight to attain the most basic human rights. In this article to mark International Women’s Day, two Iranian housewives share their stories. *** Rouhangiz is now approaching …

gatestoneinstitute.org – If Turkey targets Sinjar, it will not be the first Turkish military assault against the region. In 2017, Turkish warplanes dropped bombs on Sinjar, hitting a civilian clinic. “‘[A]nalysts should understand that the fundamental reason that Yezidis join military units is to defend the land from a genocidal invasion…. no one, including Turkey, has the right to expel …