HRW Urges Iran To ‘Immediately And Unconditionally’ Release Rights Defender Mohammadi
FFL/RE - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned a new prison sentence handed to prominent Iranian human rights defender Narges…
Month: January 2022
Iran Beats Iraq 1-0, Qualifying for Qatar World Cup
Iranwire - Iran has qualified for the FIFA World Cup competitions in Qatar with a 1-0 victory over Iraq at…
State TV Hacked by Iranian Opposition
Iranwire - Iranian state TV was subjected to a rare disruption by hackers on Thursday in a strike attributed to…
Rouhani-era Officials Cry Foul as Third Humanities Professor Sacked
Iranwire -- Sociology professor Mohammad Fazeli was widely reported in Iranian media this week to have been dismissed from his…
Iran’s Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part I: The Ones That Got Away
Iranwire - The verdict in a massive corruption case involving the Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company (PCC) was announced on September 5, 2021.…
Biden Greenlights South Korean Release of Funds to Politically Connected Iranian Firm
fdd.org - The Treasury Department on January 6 issued a special license to authorize the South Korean government to pay $63 million…
Ex-UN officials, rights experts urge probe of Iran’s 1988 mass killings
Al-Monitor - A group of former United Nations officials and experts have penned an open letter urging the United Nations…
Top Iran security official retracts comments on talks with US
AL-Monitor - Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has said he will “never endorse direct negotiations with the United…
US Treasury Targets Repression and the Undermining of Democracy
treasury.gov— Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating 15 actors across three…
Firings Of Iranian University Professors Stoke Fears Of New Purge
RFL/RE - Mohammad Fazeli, a prominent Iranian sociologist, had taught at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti university for seven years before he…