Tehran Municipality’s Budget Spent Over Promoting Regime’s Propaganda
Iran-HRM - The details of Tehran municipality’s 2018 budget show that at least $10 million of the municipality’s annual budget…
Iran: Eight Detainees On Hunger Strike
Iran-HRM - It is for several days that eight people arrested in Khozestan’s peaceful demonstrations have gone on hunger strike…
Iran: Disciplinary Patrols Equipped With Uniform Cameras
Iran-HRM - Mohammad Sharafi, the head of NAJA (Disciplinary Force of Islamic Republic) cited that police budget has escalated to…
Banned Iranian Director Gets Standing Ovation At Cannes Film Festival
RFL/RE - A new film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a…
How Iran is extending its ‘Shiite crescent’ to Africa
Al-Arabia - The war against ISIS in Iraq was won by a combination of Iraqi Shiite militias, Iraqi Kurdish militias…
Iran, Qatar hold sixth joint economic committee meeting in Doha
Al-Arabia - An Iranian delegation of 70 experts and businessmen from the private and public sectors by the country’s deputy…
Iran Sentences 8 to Die for Islamic State Attack
VOA — An Iranian court on Sunday sentenced eight men to death over attacks that killed 18 people at the parliament…
Despite Facing Prison, Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi Still Seeking Justice For Deceased Detainee
CHRI - “The authorities…told me that they are trying to grind me to oblivion.” Mohammad Najafi, a human rights lawyer…
Rouhani Commission on Detainee Deaths in Iran Fails to Produce Results Three Months After Formation
CHRI - The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of detainee deaths in Iran has…
Iran’s Telegram Ban Reveals New Authority By Judiciary to Directly Order Online Content to Blocked
CHRI-Iran’s ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app has revealed a new state tactic for blocking access to or “filtering” online…