Iranwire – Last week, Iranian media reported the opening of the first women’s emergency center in the city of Piranshahr.  Farzin Rezazadeh, the head of the Emergency Department in West Azerbaijan province, vowed to launch a second such center in the near future, with women occupying all technician positions, except for the ambulance driver. Meanwhile, Jafar Miyadfar, the head of …

Iranwire – Well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan, who is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, says she won’t respond to a summons to answer a complaint filed by a state TV employee. The judiciary summoned Qoliyan to appear at the Kachoi Judicial Complex in Tehran on July 19 to answer a complaint …

Iranwire – Renowned Iranian painter and actor Khosro Hassanzadeh passed away on July 2 after drinking bootleg alcohol, amid a recent surge in cases of fatal alcohol poisoning in the country. Hassanzadeh was born in Tehran in 1963 to a working class family. He studied painting at the Faculty of Art and Persian Literature of Tehran’s Azad University, while being …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO – At least 354 people including six women were executed in the first six months of 2023. 20% of all executions were Baluch minorities. 206 people were executed for drug-related charges, a 126% rise compared to the same period last year. Underlining the accelerated speed of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s execution machine, Iran Human Rights …

amnesty – The Iranian authorities are carrying out a horrific state-sanctioned killing spree under the guise of judicial executions. Those executed include people convicted of drug-related offences, protesters, political dissidents, and members of oppressed ethnic minorities. Call for states to urgently intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all executions now.   What is the problem?  The Iranian authorities are …

voanews – Paris — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Saturday gave their backing to an exiled Iran opposition movement, slamming what it called Western appeasement of Iran’s clerical authorities. They addressed a meeting outside Paris of the People’s Mujahedin (MEK) group, as thousands of supporters of the group staged a rally in …

alarabiya – For the first time, the European signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the UK, France, and Germany are preparing to breach the accord, by refusing to lift sanctions on Tehran’s missile usage in October as initially specified in the agreement, the Guardian reported on Sunday. While Former President Donald Trump took the US out of the nuclear …

rferl.org – An Iranian appeals court handed a five-year sentence to prominent activist and journalist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, who has been held since her arrest at the onset of a protest movement, supporters said on July 2. Iraee refused to take part in the appeals court hearing over her sentence for participating in illegal gatherings and violating national security, saying …

rferl.org – The leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, said on July 1 that he has been told he cannot visit the German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, who has been sentenced to death. “After several months of processing, my application to enter Iran was rejected. The regime denies me an insight into the prison conditions of the German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd,” …

rferl.org – The family of Iranian activist Manuchehr Bakhtiari is voicing serious concerns over his health following his brief transfer from prison to a medical facility on June 28. Bakhtiari, who is currently held at Chubindar prison in the northwestern city of Qazvin, has been denied access to medical treatment for several months. Bakhtiari became a prominent rights advocate after …