Meet ‘The Butcher,’ Iran’s New President Ebrahim Raisi
tabletmag.com - As the Biden administration gives every indication of removing most sanctions on the world’s top state sponsor of…
Month: June 2021
Iran says US criticism of election is interference in its affairs
Al-Arabia - Iran accused the United States on Tuesday of interference for saying its presidential election on Friday was neither…
Iran vote points to consolidation of hardline clergy’s hold on power: Analysts
Al-Arabia - A hardline victory in Iran’s presidential election has tilted the domestic balance of power toward the country’s anti-Western…
Ebrahim Raeesi’s First News Conference and the Long Shadow of Crimes Against Humanity
Iranwire - In his first press conference after his electoral victory, Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raeesi had a clear message for…
How Might the Economy Fare Under a “Unified” Iranian State?
Iranwire - "Let the government be unified and fall completely into its own hands, so that it can be held…
Ebrahim Raeesi’s Prospects as Iran’s First Sanctioned President-Elect
Iranwire - Ebrahim Raeesi is the first president-elect in Iran to have been sanctioned by the United States and the European Union…
Iran: Stop imminent execution of young man arrested and tortured at 17
amnesty.org - Responding to the Iranian authorities’ plans on 28 June to execute 20-year-old Hossein Shahbazi, who was convicted of…
Iran’s new president rules out meeting with Biden
Al-Monitor - Sitting before dozens of microphones in his first press conference since the election Friday, Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi fielded…
Iran wants ‘guarantee’ US will not leave nuclear deal again
Al-Monitor - Iran wants a guarantee from the United States that it will not leave the Iran nuclear agreement again.…
Iran Urged To Free Rights Lawyer Sotoudeh Arrested Three Years Ago
RFL/RE - UN human rights experts have condemned the continued imprisonment of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, whose health…