Al-Monitor – A senior Iranian judiciary official called on the United States to free Iranian individuals held in American jails, mostly over bypassing US sanctions levied against the Islamic Republic.      “The US has arrested tens of innocent Iranians under the pretext of circumventing its cruel and inhumane sanctions,” tweeted Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi.   Gharibabadi noted that those …

Shabtabnews – In a speech to IRF (International Religious Freedom) and US State Department representatives , Hamid Gharagozloo the US representative of IOPHR addressed the Iranian Regimes’ fatwas calling for the assassinations of Salman Rushdie, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. In his speech Mr Gharagozloo stated:” At the same time, as Khamenei’s regime and propaganda apparatus have praised the would-be …

Al-Arabia – The 24-year-old man who stabbed Salman Rushdie hailed Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini as a “great person” in an interview published Wednesday. Speaking to the New York Post in a video interview from jail, Hadi Matar said he did not think Rushdie was “a very good person.” “He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems,” …

An appeals court in Tehran has confirmed the prison sentences of three outspoken campaigners who wanted to sue government officials for allegedly mismanaging the coronavirus crisis and hampering the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. One of the activists, Mostafa Nili, said the Court of Appeal of Tehran Province on August 16 confirmed the sentences they were appealing before the group, who are known …

Iranwire – A doctor in Iran’s Lorestan province has had his clinic sealed off and his medical license revoked for treating patients for free, IranWire has learned. Dr. Yaser Rahmanirad had also offered pregnant women referrals for prenatal screening from his clinic in Khorramabad. The Iranian government has recently moved to restrict patients’ checking for fetal abnormalities, as part of …

Iranwire – Iran’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Setad-PV) has published a 119-page document detailing the Islamic Republic’s hijab policy, and the rationale behind a recent government campaign to enforce the veiling of women more strictly and with a greater degree of violence. Entitled the “Hijab and Chastity Project”, the policy was apparently sent last winter to …

Iranwire – Almost half of Iranian young people who took part in a recent survey said they would leave the country if given the opportunity, and most Iranians said young people did not see prosperity in their own futures. The telephone survey by Washington-based Stasis Consulting took in the views of 1,246 residents aged 18 and above between July 26 and 29. …

Iranwire – The IRGC’s Intelligence Organization (IRGC-IO) has announced a total ban on contact or collaboration with Belgium-based filmmaking NGO the Close Up Initiative. In an announcement on Wednesday, the IRGC-IO accused the Initiative of receiving “material and spiritual aid from the government of Israel”. It had been blacklisted, the Guards claimed, due to “the revelation of the true nature …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Whenever they (Islamists) disagree with a woman, they accuse her of treason, threaten her with rape and torture, and bully her family.” — Ghada Oueiss, Lebanese journalist, to Lebanese television presenter Dima Sadek’s 1.1 million followers on Twitter, after she received death threats for criticizing the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie; Twitter, August 14, 2022. “Get out of …

HRW – In the past month, Iranian authorities have sought to implement new restrictions on women’s dress code and further enforces the hijab and chastity laws. While according to Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Golpaygani, the head of the headquarters to promote virtue, the new policy will change not wearing proper hijab from a criminal offense to a fine, women who post …