iranhr.net – The results of many dams and water transfer projects in Iran have been environmental injustice and migration to the city margins and shantytowns. For the past seven years, Abangan has sought to raise public awareness about water resource management, and in cooperation with the Iran Human Rights organization, it has addressed this issue from the perspective of human …

Al-Monitor – The European Union dispatched to Tehran its coordinator on the talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal in an effort to bring the sides back to the negotiating table. Following a two-month pause, senior EU diplomat Enrique Mora came to meet with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani on May 10 and pick up from where the sides left off in Vienna. …

RFL/RE – Iran’s judiciary says the death sentence of Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali will be carried out, as Tehran does not plan to seek a prisoner exchange for an Iranian being tried in Stockholm for his alleged role in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners at an Iranian prison in the 1980s. Judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodaian on May …

Iranwire – Street protests broke out in cities across Khuzestan, western Iran, last Thursday over a sudden hike in the cost of basic goods. The government cut off flour subsidies and began rationing bread two weeks ago – Iran imports much of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine and is one of several countries badly affected by shortages due to …

VOA —The European Union diplomat seeking to revive a 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran announced Monday, as the United States voiced hope for progress. Enrique Mora has played a key role as an intermediary between the United States and Iran during a year of on-off talks in Vienna that have been at a standstill since March. …

Iranwire – “I was 12 when I learned I’d have to become a bride. My mother just told me: ‘You’re going to marry your cousin, and you must promise me you’ll always listen to him, and he’ll always be satisfied with you.’ On the wedding night, she said: ‘Husbands and wives are allowed to be intimate and nothing that goes …

VOA – Iran’s president said Monday the country is exporting twice as much oil as when he took office in August, despite heavy sanctions on oil exports imposed by the U.S. Ebrahim Raisi made the claim in a live interview on state-run TV without elaborating, including on the amount of oil being exported. “Oil sales have doubled,” he said. “We …

iranhr.ne – From the 2021Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran: While multiple offences are punishable by death, the charges leading to the most executions in recent years have been murder, drug-related offences, moharebeh, efsad-fil-arz, baghy and rape/sexual assault. The important point to note is the systematic denial of legal due process, unfair trials, use of torture and duress, forced confessions and …

CHRI – Government-enforced internet outages and the increased presence of state security forces throughout the Iranian province of Khuzestan, where street protests erupted on May 6, have raised fears over another deadly crackdown in the Islamic Republic. “Iranian state forces used live ammunition and killed peaceful protesters in Khuzestan a year ago, and they appear to be gearing up for a bloody …

Just recently worldwide media have reported on the serious change in the case of Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor in emergency medicine, sentenced to death in Iran on charges of espionage. He was arrested in 2016, in Iran, during a business trip, accused of spying for Israel. Worrying reports have now emerged that the death sentence will be carried …