Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Hossein Ghashghaeii who has come out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary for a brief leave has exposed the corruption prevailing in that prison. Hossein Ghashghaeii posted a thread of tweets in which he divulged a corrupt ward director in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary who sexually assaults inmates in his ward. Political prisoner Hossein Ghashghaeii is sentenced to two …

Al-Monitor – The Indian government, which has been reaching out to the new administration in Iran to establish closer ties that New Delhi sees as important to its regional aims, has seen its efforts become all the more pressing in light of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s subsequent takeover. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has visited Tehran twice this summer, the second time …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the country’s embassy in Kabul continues its normal operations two days after the lightning capture of the Afghan capital by the Taliban. Khatibzadeh said the Islamic Republic’s consulate in the city of Herat, close to the Iranian border, also remains fully operational. The statement confirmed earlier reports that Iran’s embassy was among a …

nufdiran – Use Frozen Assets for Vaccines Mr. President, The people of Iran are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. While the world struggles with COVID-19, the Iranian people are struggling under a regime condemning them to death by banning the American-made vaccines which could save their lives. This is just the Islamic Republic’s latest crime against the people of Iran. …

iranwire – With the Taliban’s lightning-fast and brutal seizure of Afghanistan now near-complete, Iran is braced for a new wave of desperate Afghan migrants making their way across the border in search of a relatively safe place to live. The Islamic Republic’s officials and border guards of have a record of brutalizing Afghans who make the crossing illegally. Official near-silence reigned in Tehran as …

iranwire – Recently a driver in Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan, took exception to the way two passing women were dressed in public. He ran them over with his car and drove away from the scene. A few hours later police reported that the man had been found and arrested. The incident prompted uproar both inside Iran and on …

iranwire – Iranian social media users have denounced a domestic messaging app, Rubika, for serial identity theft. The row broke out at the weekend after Twitter user and social media marketing specialist Houman Ghorbanian searched for his name on Rubika. He discovered the app had registered a fake account using his name and photo, crawling and uploading all his real …

iranwire – The “Iran Without Hate” social media campaign, in Persian and in English, was to address discrimination against Iran’s Baha’i community and to help reduce this discrimination in Iran. A Twitter storm with the #StopHatePropaganda hashtag in English and, in Persian, #Iran_Without_Hate, attracted the support of influential figures around the world. How can the campaign reduce hatred against religious minorities in Iran? IranWire spoke with the organizers and …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoners Ahad Barzegar and Reza Roj’ati were abruptly moved out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary and relocated to Rajaiishahr Prison (Gohardasht) on Sunday morning, August 15, 2021. Prison authorities called them from their ward under the pretext of attending a court hearing. Later on, the authorities ordered the political prisoners’ cellmates to pack their belongings for transfer …

CHRI —The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil rights activists in Tehran as they were preparing to file a lawsuit against state officials for their gross mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic is an indication of the worsening human rights situation under the newly inaugurated President Ebrahim Raisi and new Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei. “Instead of addressing the skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 infections …