Rouhani Vows To Stay On As President Despite Pressures By Iran Hardliners
Radiofarda - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Wednesday implicitly rejected any talk of an early departure from his post, promising to…
Interrogator Of Former Iran Revolutionary Admits He Was Victim Of Enmity With America
Radiofarda - The interrogator of Abbas Amir-Entezam - the first and longest-jailed political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran - has admitted…
‘The Islamic Republic Of Execution’: Iran Executed At Least 8,000 In 20 Years
Radiofarda - Using execution as a means of suppressing dissent has a long history in the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
As Trump Warns Iran Not to Execute 3 Protesters, Their Lawyers Request Retrial
VOA - Iranian lawyers representing three men sentenced to death for involvement in antigovernment protests last November say they have…
Iran: Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression
Amnesty - There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of…
Civil Activist Zahra Mohammadi Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Zahra Mohammadi, a civil society activist and Kurdish language teacher, has been sentenced to 10…
Iran: Three Prisoners Executed for Drug Charges
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Two prisoners on death row for "narcotics" and another for "narcotics and premeditated murder" were…
Iran: Prisoner Mohammad Hadi Dadian Executed in Yasuj
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner, sentenced to retribution in kind (death) for "premeditated murder" was executed in Yasuj…
Two Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed Despite “Serious Questions” in the Case
CHRI - Politically Motivated Executions in Iran Continue to Increase Despite serious questions regarding evidence of guilt, two Kurdish political…
Intel: Trump joins chorus of Iranians urging halt to imminent political executions
Al-Monitor - President Donald Trump today joined the online chorus of Iranians warning the government against the imminent execution of…