Iranwire – Iranian football coach Ali Karimi launched a blistering attack on the IRGC officer and conspiracy theorist Hassan Abbasi on Wednesday, demanding: “At least we’ve made the hearts of a few people happy. What have you done, you bozo?” The tirade, posted on the outspoken ex-player’s Instagram account, came after Abbasi spoke in mocking terms about the contribution of …

Iranwire – Iran’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Setad-PV) is suing the domestic ice cream company Domino for its supposedly provocative ice cream ads. In the company’s latest commercial, for a frozen treat called Choco-Berry, a young woman adds layer after layer to her clothing, each one matching a layer of flavor in the ice cream. …

Iranwire – The last queen of Iran has penned an open letter to Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, asking him to intervene decisively this November in the ongoing stalemate over Iranian women not being allowed into football stadiums in Iran. In the correspondence published on Monday, Farah Pahlavi wrote that it was “shameful” Iranian women were still not being allowed to take their rightful …

Iranwire – Offices and some schools have been closed in Khuzestan, Yazd and 16 cities in Isfahan province due to ongoing severe air pollution and dust storms in the west. The official IRNA News Agency announced on Tuesday that in some parts of Khuzestan the concentration of dust particles in the air had breached the safe limit, 140 μg/m3 (micrograms …

Iranwire – Women who attend work for the local council without being suitably veiled can expect to be sent home without pay, the governor of Fars province has said. Speaking at a meeting of the Fars Province Administrative Council on Sunday evening, Mohammad Hadi Imaniyeh gave all departments of the local authority a deadline of the end of July to …

Iran-HRM – Nearly 800 days after Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was banished to Yazd prison she has been deprived of the right to visit her family and lawyer. She has also been denied medical care. According to a source from Iran, “about 20 days ago, Ms. Jalalian’s elderly parents went from a long distance from Mako – Dim Qashlaq …

Shabtabnews – In a letter IOPHR urged the Members of the Belgian Parliament to reconsider and prevent a judicial cooperation between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Islamic Republic of Iran . The letter outlined many of the dangerous consequences of the approval of such cooperation for the future of Belgium and Europe. IOPHR also in its letter stated that …

Iranwire – Last week rumors circulated in Iranian media that General Ali Nasiri, a senior commander in the IRGC’s Information Protection Unit, had been arrested. It came after a report in the New York Times asserted that several dozen arrests had been made within the Ministry of Defense’s missile development program, on suspicion of leaking classified information. Some linked the alleged arrest …

Iranwire – Iranians’ access to domestic banking services from abroad has been temporarily cut off in aid of “preventing cyber attacks”, according to the official news agency IRNA. The restrictions were confirmed on Monday, but Iranians outside the country first started reporting difficulties over the weekend. Follow-ups by IRNA with the “competent authorities” – who were not named in its …

Iran-HRM – A number of Sunni religious prisoners in the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj went on a hunger strike in protest of the Tehran prosecutor’s “insult” during his visit to this prison. Three Sunni prisoners identified as Yasin Abbas Jobi, Nooraziz Darabi, and Sadeq Ayyubi started a 3-day hunger on Thursday, June 3. On Friday evening, all the Sunni …