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Month: January 2023

Germany expects further Iran sanctions at EU foreign ministers meeting

Al-Arabia - European Union foreign ministers are expected to agree further sanctions targeting members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…

Rights Group Says Iranian Security Forces Closing Roads Around Zahedan To Preempt Protests

RFL/RE - A rights group says security forces have closed the roads leading to the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan…

Iranian Lawyers Warn Judiciary Over Defendant’s Rights Abuses

RFL/RE - A group of 45 Iranian lawyers and law professors has published an open letter objecting to the deprivation of fundamental…

Iranians Rally Behind Executed Poultry Worker, Kids’ Coach

RFL/RE - While Mohammad Hosseini's execution was intended as a message from Tehran that involvement in ongoing antiestablishment protests will…

Fact Check: The Islamic Republic Really Empowered Iranian Women?

Iranwire - In a January 10 interview on Iranian state TV, Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy head of the judiciary for international affairs and…

Dr. Jamaloddin Mostaghimi: A Baha’i Doctor and Educator and Iran’s “Father of Anatomy”

Iranwire - Health workers play a critical role in society, for example by serving at the frontlines in protecting people…

German Lawmakers Call For Release Of Baha’i Jailed In Iran

Iranwire - Two German lawmakers have joined together to politically sponsor a member of Iran's persecuted Baha'i religious minority who…

Blinding As A Weapon Of War

Iranwire - Hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets…

Tehran University Tries New Measure To Enforce Hijab Law

Iranwire - Tehran University vows to enforce new regulation that punishes women students who do not abide to the Islamic…

Dublin Doing ‘Everything’ to Free French-Irish Citizen Held in Iran

VOA - Ireland's foreign minister said Thursday the government was doing all it could to secure the release of a…