Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Baluch prisoner Yasser Daryayi-Narouyi, on death row on drug-related charges, has been executed in Sabzevar Prison. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, Zahedan native, Yasser Daryayi-Narouyi was executed in Sabzevar Prison in the early hours of April 7. The Baluch prisoner had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges. According to the report, Yasser was …

Iran Human Rights – A prisoner sentenced to death on drug-related charges has been executed in Taybad Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Taybad Prison in the early hours of this morning, April 8. His identity has been established as 39 year-old Safar Rahimi and he was sentenced to death on drug-related charges. An informed …

Al-Monitor – Furious calls are growing louder in Iran against the pandemic mismanagement after the country’s infection rates tripled in a matter of two days. According to official statistics April 8, all provincial capitals and over three-fourths of the country were mapped as red zones. The number of daily cases hit a record new high of 22,586, pushing beyond 2 million the …

Bloomberg – Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, could not have been more clear after the first round of talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal concluded this week in Vienna: We’re not making any concessions until America does. The U.S. must first lift sanctions, he said. Then and only then will Iran be “fully ready to stop its retaliation nuclear activity …

freebeacon.com – Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress officially informed the Biden administration late Wednesday that they will not be bound to any new agreement with Iran that promises relief from harsh economic sanctions, according to a copy of that communication exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The letter is a sign that any new Iran deal is likely to be …

Al-Arabia – Iran-backed Houthis have targeted the mainstream education system in Yemen by spreading its rhetoric of hate in textbooks circulated in the curriculum designed to influence the country’s children, a study published by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE) has revealed. The Middle East educational watchdog’s report reviewed materials produced by the Houthis for …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 security forces in Isfahan stopped a bus carrying the families of some of those killed during recent street protests in Iran and arrested at least 22 of them. The news agency HRANA reports that the attack took place while families were returning from a protest at the tomb of Sardar Asad Bakhtiari, an Iranian constitutionalist, …

Iranwire – More than a year has passed since two missiles were fired at Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 over Tehran, killing all 176 people on board. But there is still no word on the perpetrators, or how they will be brought to justice. In the face of mounting international pressure for accountability from the United Nations and Canada, an Iranian …

Iranwire – In real terms Ali Motahari, a former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, holds views on women’s rights and compulsory hijab that are not dissimilar to those of other officials of the Islamic Republic. But in his case, every time he repeats them, his words do not fail to astound. In a recent tirade on the social networking …

Iranwire – An Iranian academic and prominent theater professional has provoked a backlash after he said people from the LGBTQ community “did not observe the cultural sanctity” of an Iranian theater in the capital and called for it to be cordoned off. Activists and artists soon rallied, releasing a joint statement on Petition condemning artist Ghotboddin Sadegh’s insults, accusing him of hate …