Report Documents Iran’s “Unprecedented” Crackdown On Rights Defenders
Iranwire - A Norway-based human rights group says at least 218 rights defenders have been arrested and harassed in Iran…
Month: December 2022
Iran’s Star Actor Pourarab Urges Amnesty For Arrested Protesters
Iranwire- Iranian star actor Abolfazl Pourarab has appeared on a live TV program where he called on Supreme Leader Ali…
An Iranian Masterwork Opens With Its Director Behind Bars
VOA - After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making…
SCIRF Condemns Sentencing of 2 Iranian Baha’i Women
VOA - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the 10-year prison sentences given two Baha’i women in…
Iran’s Quds Force leader criticizes women without hijabs
Al-Monitor - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani has weighed in for the first time on the recent protests…
USCIRF commended US sanctions against high-ranking officials complicit in egregious religious freedom violations.
Shabtabnews - In a twitter statement USCIRF commended US sanctions against high-ranking officials complicit in egregious religious freedom violations, and…
Iran’s clerical leaders to grapple with deepening dissent in 2023
Al-Arabia - Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into…
Iran says arrested Mossad spies planning ‘terrorist’ attacks
Al-Arabia - Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Thursday it had arrested a number of Mossad spies who were planning “terrorist”…
Iranian Actor Mohammadi Among Five Handed Death Sentences
RFL/RE - Iranian actor Hossein Mohammadi is among five protesters to have been handed death sentences over the death of…
Iranian Newspaper Calls For Crackdown On Protest Supporters In Football
Iranwire - A semiofficial Iranian newspaper has asked the authorities to “shut down” the Football Premier League after players voiced…