Al-Monitor — State TV has long been recognized as one of the most powerful and influential institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, in the past two years, Vahid Jalili, a hard-line figure, has taken the helm causing concern even among conservatives, with his primary goal to promote the Islamic Republic’s ideology in the most hard-line and extreme way.  In 2021, a …

VOA – In an attempt to boost Iran’s flagging population growth, the government approved a controversial law in 2021 that further tightened restrictions on medical abortions and banned the free distribution of contraceptives. Now, officials have expressed alarm about the number of illegal abortions being carried out in the country, suggesting government restrictions have pushed more women to terminate unwanted …

Iranwire – Iranian security agents have arrested three female teenagers and two men from the southern city of Lar over their alleged involvement in chemical attacks on schools, IranWire has learned. An informed source told IranWire that the three students are being subjected to intense pressure to confess to carrying out poisoning attacks, despite their protestations of innocence. The source …

Iranwire – IranWire has obtained a confidential document showing that the education authorities in the north-western Iranian province of Kurdistan have demoted dozens of teachers who supported anti-government protests last year. The multi-page decree reveals that the province’s General Department of Education formed an “Emergency Committee” on November 7 following an order from the Supreme National Security Council to punish …

Iranwire – Iran’s former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, has visited the spiritual and administrative heart of the Baha’i community in Haifa, as he wrapped up his five-day trip to Israel. Baha’is in Iran have faced persecution and discrimination since the 1979 Islamic Revolution because of their religious beliefs. Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah and an exiled …

VOA- A Sunni imam said Friday during an Eid al-Fitr sermon in Zahedan, Iran, that people have a right to protest and the government should listen to their demands. In an audio file published on his Telegram channel, Molavi Abdul Hamid was quoted as saying the people’s desire is “the release of political prisoners” and the government should consider the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Nothing seems to stop the Biden administration from wanting to reward the ruling mullahs of Iran with a nuclear deal that will pave the way for the Islamist regime of Iran legally to obtain as many nuclear weapons as it likes, empower the ruling mullahs with billions of dollars, lift sanctions against their theocratic regime, allow them to …

Iranhr.net – This is an extract from the 2022 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. Iran is the world’s top executioner of women with at least 16 executed in Iran in 2022. According to Amnesty International, 24 women were executed around the world in 2022. As aforementioned, there was a complete …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – According to newly obtained information, an unidentified woman was executed for murder charges along with protesters Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini in Karaj Penitentiary on January 7. According to new information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a woman was executed in Karaj Penitentiary on January 7. The woman who has not been identified …

RFL/RE – A new bipartisan caucus in the U.S. Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent suspected poisoning of schoolgirls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic republic and its disregard for human rights. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat-Texas) announced the formation of the Iranian Women Congressional Caucus with the support of nearly …