Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Several Nobel laureates & distinguished scholars have asked António Guterres and Michelle Bachelet to make every effort to ensure Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, two students at Sharif University arbitrarily detained in Iran since April 10, 2020, are released immediately. On December 24, 2021, Iran Human Rights expressed its grave concern about the impending heavy and baseless sentences against …

timesofisrael — Iranian authorities on Sunday arrested an individual for destroying a statue of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the previous day, a local official said. The incident comes as Iran prepares to celebrate in February the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution and Khomenei’s triumphant return to Tehran from exile. It is the second reported attack against …

Al-Arabia – An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes, her husband announced on Sunday, following her sudden arrest in November last year. Her husband Taghi Rahmani, who is based in France, wrote on Twitter that the sentence was handed out after a hearing that lasted only five …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s oil ministry on Sunday urged people to wear warm clothes to reduce a surging demand for gas, as people turn up their heaters to cope with bitterly cold winter temperatures. Iran has the world’s second largest gas reserves after Russia, and the fourth largest oil reserves. Gas is almost free in Iran because it is heavily subsidized. …

Al-Arabia – A British national held in Iran for four-and-a-half-years on spying charges vehemently denied by supporters is beginning a hunger strike to protest his situation and lack of pressure to secure his release, his family announced on Saturday. Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, who holds British and Iranian passports, is one of over a dozen foreign nationals detained in Iran who …

RFL/RE – The U.S. Navy has announced that it seized a ship carrying fertilizer used to make explosives as it traveled from Iran along a route previously used to smuggle weapons to Yemen’s Huthi rebels. The navy said on January 23 it boarded and searched the ship, which last year was caught carrying thousands of weapons and handed to Yemen’s …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he new Iranian officials and their media outlets in Tehran have started speaking of the US “paying compensation to the Islamic Republic” and any commitments by Iran being conditional on “verification” of American actions. In other words, Tehran is talking of total surrender by the Biden administration, while Washington hopes to score a low-cost diplomatic victory. In the …

VOA —Using Iranian bank funds freed from American sanctions, South Korea has paid Iran’s $18 million in delinquent dues owed to the United Nations, Seoul said Sunday. The step was apparently approved by Washington to restore Tehran’s suspended voting rights at the world body. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But …

Iran-HRM – Imprisoned journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi, was transferred from Evin Prison to Karaj Central Prison.The 73-year-old was recently transferred to a police station in Karaj, west of Tehran. Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of Keyvan Samimi, had previously said that according to the available evidence, “resorting to violence and force” the authorities had taken his client to one …

Iran-HRM – Police opened fire on a car in Zanjan, northwest Iran on January 19, killing an 8-year-old girl and seriously injuring her teen sister. According to local sources, when returning from Tehran, the Palangi family was stopped by police on the Zanjan-Miyaneh road. The driver of the car who was the family’s son, did not stop after a police …