Iranwire – Over 300 Iranian musicians have condemned the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, calling it cruel and unprecedented and demanding his immediate release.  They called Salehi “the trailblazer of the silenced voices and the just aspirations of a generation of Iranians,” while urgently calling for the annulment of his “inhumane sentence” of execution. In a statement published on Sunday, …

Iranwire – Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a writer and Islamic scholar detained in Evin prison, has detailed her distress due to “torture” and lack of medical attention in a letter addressed to the United Nations fact-finding mission about Iran.  She wrote in the letter, “For more than 40 days, I have been brutally and violently arrested by agents under the order of …

Iranwire – Parisa Salehi, a journalist and student activist, was moved to Kachouei Prison in Karaj on Sunday to begin her jail term. Her sister, Parinaz Salehi, shared the news on social media, stating, “Today, my sister Parisa Salehi, a journalist and master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran, was transferred to Kachouei Prison to start her sentence.” …

Iranwire – Shiraz authorities arrested three people in connection with a gathering where several people became ill after consuming alcoholic beverages.  One person, a dermatologist named Farzaneh Akbari, has died. The Shiraz prosecutor’s office, quoted by Mizan News on April 29, stated that 28 people were poisoned, with one fatality.  Reports vary on the type of alcohol consumed. Some sources, …

Iranwire – Farahnaz Nik-Khoo, a 50-year-old retired telecommunications worker, was sentenced to ten years in prison by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.  The charges against her are unspecified but fall under the category of “acting against national security through espionage,” according to the HRANA human rights organization.  Nik-Khoo was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [A]ny regime’s foreign policy is basically a continuation of its domestic policies. The Khomeinist revolution’s ambition was to transform the Iranian society into a vehicle for “exporting revolution” which, as “Supreme Guide” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often asserts, is the fundamental goal of the regime. The hitch is that, as the old generation of revolutionaries, a hodgepodge of leftist …

gatestoneinstitute.org – For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing “pro-Palestinian” about supporting the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group…. Those who are chanting “we are all Hamas” on the streets of New York and U.S. college campuses are not helping the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip even slightly. They are being used as human shields by the terrorist group Hamas …

Iranwire – Taraneh Alidoosti, Mustafa Al-Ahmad, Bahareh Hedayat, Narges Mohammadi, Arash Sadeghi, Forugh Taghipour, Zohreh Sarv, and Nasrin Javadi are among the many prisoners afflicted with unknown or incurable diseases, a number that continues to rise with each passing day. Despite this alarming trend, relevant institutions, including the prison organization and the judiciary, turn a blind eye and attempt to …

iranintl – Fifteen former Iran hostages have censured the Swedish government for “lack of meaningful action” to free Swedish-Iranian doctor Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been on death row in Iran for more than 6 years. “Sweden has done little to secure his release and also inexcusably failed to provide his family with the level of support and information they need …

iranintl – Actress Taraneh Alidoosti and filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad have been diagnosed with diseases after serving time in Iranian prisons for voicing dissent, the latest in a series of mystery illnesses contracted by political prisoners. Taraneh Alidoosti – best known for the Oscar-winning movie “The Salesman” – was arrested as part of the Woman Life Freedom movement sparked by the death in …