Iranwire – Roozbeh Piri, a journalist and civil activist living in Tabriz, was fined this week for posting images to Instagram showing the effects of physical torture his brother had endured while detained by Iran’s paramilitary Basij. According to reports received by IranWire, Branch 12 of the East Azarbaijan Court of Appeals upheld a ruling of the Court of First Instance, sentencing Piri …

Iran Human Rights – Kurdish death row political prisoner, Heydar Ghorbani’s request for a retrial has been rejected by the Supreme Court and his case has instead been sent for implementation. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Branch 2 of the Supreme Court rejected Heydar Ghorbani’s request for a retrial according to Article 477 of the Code of …

Al-Monitor – A week after Ebrahim Raisi’s inauguration as Iran’s new president, questions are lingering and speculation growing over the absence of certain figures from the ceremony. Were they not invited or did they decline to attend? Either way, the visible absences speak volumes about widening cracks in the corridors of power in Tehran.  Ahead of the Aug. 5 swearing-in ceremony, Iranian news outlets reported …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s air defenses fired a warning shot at a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper belonging to the US military near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Iranian semi-official Nour News. The agency did not provide further details. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. This comes amid heightened tensions between Iran …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s foreign ministry “invited” Russia and Britain’s ambassadors on Thursday after the Russian embassy posted a controversial photo recalling the 1943 Tehran Conference, Iranian state media reported. During the 1943 Tehran Conference, Iran was occupied by the Allied powers. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The picture, which outgoing …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi unveiled his cabinet on Wednesday, naming a diplomat sceptical of the West and with close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as his foreign minister. Raisi submitted his cabinet nominations to parliament, which is required to review and approve the nominations. Raisi’s choices are unlikely to face any opposition from a parliament that …

Iranwire – Yesterday Ebrahim Raisi released a final, full list of his proposed new cabinet members to the Iranian parliament. In line with both political analysts’ forecasts and media speculation, alongside the names already announced this week were those of several relatively little-known figures with scant experience, as well as a hefty compliment of officials who last served in the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …

Iranwire – “We concealed the figures on fatalities from the World Health Organization,” said Dr. Alireza Zali, director of Tehran Coronavirus Taskforce on Wednesday, August 11. “When the WHO experts came to Iran, we constantly asked them to praise Iran’s health system to the media instead of consulting with them.” The senior physician made the disclosure on Wednesday, August 11 during a …

CHRI – “After Nouri Has Been Sentenced, the Pursuit of Others Responsible For the 1988 Massacre Will Commence” Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor in Iran, went on trial in Sweden on August 10, 2021, for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. According to the indictment brought by Swedish public prosecutors, Nouri, 60, is accused …

CHRI –Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei should immediately lift his ban on foreign COVID-19 vaccines, and U.S. President Joe Biden should include Iran in its global vaccination efforts, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today. Khamenei’s ban on importing vaccines from major vaccine-producing countries including the U.S., UK, and France, as well as Iranian officials’ false promises of an effective domestic …