Iran-HRM – Security forces of Kermanshah, western Iran, have raided the residences of the relatives of a Kurd witness who testified in Aban International Court investigating the bloody crackdown on the protests in Iran in November 2019. The security forces searched their houses and interrogated the residents. Sohbatollah Omidi, who was arrested during the November 2019 protests, announced: “In the past few …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi who was recently briefly furloughed after undergoing heart surgery, has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8). Reiterating that no civil activist should be harassed or imprisoned for their human rights activism, Iran Human Rights considers Narges Mohammadi’s summons to be playing with her life in light of her current …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Human rights defender Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb has been on a hunger strike in Ward 4 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary since his arrest on February 21. According to relatives, he is in a worrying physical condition and has been attacked by violent crime prisoners. Civil activist, Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb, one of the 14 signatories who signed a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vahid Mousavi, sentenced to qisas for murder, was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison yesterday and four others were returned to their cells after last minute extensions in their cases. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men were taken to the gallows on the morning of March 3 in Rajai Shahr Prison. Of the five, …

RFL/RE – Maryam Behtarpur lived a quiet life with her husband and three children in northwestern Iran, when her world was turned upside down in November 2019. That was when her eldest son, 27-year-old Farzad Ansarifar, was killed while returning from work just as the state was cracking down on protests against the country’s repressive clerical establishment.The family spoke up …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The most striking illustration of this so far is the debunking of Putin’s brazen claim that there is not and has never been a Ukrainian nation and that Ukraine is nothing but Russia misspelled. Putin insisted that Ukraine was nothing but a creation of Lenin, ignoring the fact that it was Lenin who signed away Ukraine to the …

Iranwire – The bulk of Kremlin-sponsored propaganda trying to dignify the invasion of Ukraine has been directed at Europe and the West. But recently-published content from Sputnik Persian and the Russian embassy in Tehran shows that even in these fraught times, the Kremlin has not forgotten the Iranians. On February 23, the eve of the assault, Russian Ambassador to Tehran …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Houshmand Alipour has been deprived of his right to leave and visits because of the media coverages of his hunger strike in Sanandaj Prison. Under pressure of the Intelligence Department of Kurdistan, Khosravi Zadeh, the judge in charge of Sanandaj Prison, and the head of the prison, informed Houshmand Alipour that since the issue of his …

Iran-HRM- Despite the deteriorating condition of prisoner of conscience Mostafa Abdi his father says he was prevented from being transferred from prison to a hospital after contracting Covid-19. Mostafa Abdi is a member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority and editor of a news outlet focused on the Gonabadi dervish community. Hassan Abdi, father to the jailed dervish activist tweeted …

VOA – Iran has agreed to supply answers long sought by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, Tehran and the U.N. agency said Saturday, as talks in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers appear to be coming to an end. A joint statement by Mohammad Eslami, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Rafael …