Iran: Relentless Repression of Dissent
(HRW) – Iranian authorities held a tight grip on peaceful activism during 2020, jailing lawyers, human rights defenders, and those who protested government…
Athletes Appeal to Save Life of Wrestler on Death Row
CHRI - On January 9, 2021, a press report was published in Iran about the imminent execution of 29-year-old wrestler Mehdi Ali-Hosseini…
15 Kurdish Civil Activists Arrested in Different Cities in Iran
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - At least 15 civil activists, students and environmental activists have been arrested in Marivan, Karaj,…
US labels deputy head of Iraq’s PMU a terrorist
Al-Monitor - The United States labeled the chief of staff of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units a designated global terrorist Wednesday in…
The US State Dept imposes the first-ever U.S. sanctions on revolutionary courts and judges
Shabtabnews - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the the first-ever U.S. sanctions on revolutionary courts and judges for…
IRAN: FURTHER INFORMATION: EXECUTION RISK FOR IRANIAN-SWEDISH ACADEMIC: AHMADREZA DJALALI
Amnesty - Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin prison since 24 November 2020, when he…
US Warns Iran Fueling Potential al-Qaida Resurgence
VOA - Far from potentially fading into obscurity, one of the world’s most feared jihadist terrorist organizations may be poised…
Rafsanjani Children in Public Fallout Over Trump and Iran’s Future
Iranwire - The children of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have engaged in a public war of words about…
The Double Standards and Hypocrisy of Social Media Giants
gatestoneinstitute.org - What, however, about Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who constantly tweets anti-Semitic and incendiary tweets and whose…
Iran Holds Missile Drills Amid Tensions With U.S.
RFL/RE - Iran's military has launched short-range naval missile drills in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported, amid heightened…