Iranwire – A courtroom outburst from the defendant marked the 16th session of the criminal trial of Hamid Nouri in Stockholm, Sweden on Thursday. Mehdi Eshaghi was the latest witness to take the stand against the former Gohardasht Prison official, who is accused of war crimes and murder for his part in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. Eshaghi, who was first arrested …

Iranwire – On Tuesday, September 14, the spokesman for Khuzestan province’s emergency department confirmed that two four-year-old children, a girl and a boy, had drowned after falling into an open canal in the city of Ramhormoz. Efforts to resuscitate the pair in hospital after they were pulled from the water in Taleghani Street were to no avail. The tragedy has also brought …

Iranwire – The Iranian women’s national football team has headed to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to participate in the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers. After a long interruption to their activities and the loss of a FIFA ranking, the team woke up from a two-year slumber in May with the selection of Maryam Irandoost as the new head coach. Four months of gruelling training …

Iran-HRM – A lawyer who represents Amir Hossein Moradi, a political prisoner detained for his part in the 2019 protests, said his client who suffers from a severe skin disorder is in critical condition.While critisizing the head of Iran’s judiciary for not paying attention to his client’s condition Paknia said his letters to the judge have been ignored. It came …

RFL/RE – Authorities in Tehran have approved use of the coronavirus vaccine produced by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson as Iran faces a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. “The Johnson & Johnson single-dose corona vaccine has been approved,” Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, said on September 16. Shanehsaz said the Russia-developed single-shot Sputnik Light …

Iranwire – After years of relative silence, a group of Iranian women athletes have told their stories of sexual discrimination and violence in sport. On Monday, at 8:30 pm Tehran time, IranWire hosted the “Sports Room” event on Clubhouse, offering women a space to talk about their experiences. For close to two hours, they told their painful stories, many of them for the first time, from …

Iranwire – A message makes sense in context: we analyze and understand it based on the message itself, and on the background information we have to hand. But when no context is available – or provided – then we can misunderstand a message or it can even become meaningless. We see this often now because of social media. Many users publish posts …

CHRI – With Iran’s new academic year, beginning on September 23, 2021, just around the corner, teachers have been protesting in front of Parliament and the Plan and Budget Organization in Tehran to voice anger and frustration over low pay and serious challenges including state repression against students and teachers. Teachers are currently the most organized labor sector in the country and have been demanding the full implementation …

Al-Monitor – President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe Thursday to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as well as sideline meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.       Upon departure from Tehran, Raisi addressed reporters on the “importance of regional cooperation,” a fundamental component of his stated foreign policy. As a hard-line …

Al-Arabia – Tehran’s participation in a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conference demonstrates the importance it places on regional cooperation, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said before leaving for Tajikistan on Thursday on his first foreign trip since taking office last month. The summit in Dushanbe will discuss last month’s takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, a neighbouring country of the SCO’s largely …