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Month: April 2022

Second Cleric Dies Of Injuries After ‘Terrorist’ Attack At Iranian Shrine

RFL/RE - A stabbing attack at a revered shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad has claimed the life…

My Husband Shahab Dalili is a Hostage Too: Retired Sea Captain and US Resident’s Wife Breaks Silence

Iranwire - This week, he’ll turn 60 in prison. In the spring of 2016, when he first traveled from the…

US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers

(AP) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and…

Family Spokesman: British-Iranian Mehran Raoof’s Detention is an Outrage

Iranwire - The official spokesman for British-Iranian dual national Mehran Raoof has slammed the British government for inaction on the…

Sharif University honor students unlawfully kept in “temporary detention”

Iran-HRM - More than two years after agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested and tortured university students Ali Younesi and…

Joint Statement: Iran Should Stop Persecuting Families Seeking Justice for State Atrocities

CHRI — The 15 undersigned organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today issued a joint statement calling…

Debate on Iranian women’s access to soccer games flares up again

Al-Monitor - The incidents of March 29 in the northeastern city of Mashhad  rekindled a dormant debate on the right…

Iran lifts COVID-related travel bans

Al-Monitor - The Iranian government Wednesday removed coronavirus-related restrictions on citizens entering the country.  The Civil Aviation Authority made the…

Women Round on Iran’s Cinema House for Inaction Over Sexual Violence

Iranwire - On Thursday, March 31, some 300 of women working in Iranian cinema published a joint letter of protest against behind-the-scenes…

Oil Minister: Iran Signed New Contracts Worth $16bn – But We Won’t Say What They Where

Iranwire - Iran has signed more than $16bn worth of oil contracts since the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi last summer,…