Teachers Union Protests Repression Aimed At Silencing Educators
RFL/RE - A teachers’ trade union association in Iran is protesting what it calls the repression of teachers by security…
Friday Prayer Leader Says Protesters Should Be Hanged
RFL/RE - Tehran’s hard-line provisional Friday Prayer leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, has explicitly threatened protesters in Iran with the death…
Iranian Christians Appeal Convictions By Islamic Court
RFL/RE - Three Iranian Christians are due to appear before Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on February 4 to appeal against…
More Iranian women join protest against forced hijab code
Al-Arabia - On Saturday, a video of a young woman taking off her hijab in Iran in front of a…
Iranian Leaders Speak of Threat of Social Media
VOA— Having survived popular protests across major cities in Iran, Iranian leaders are now turning to the tools that helped protesters…
29 Arrested in Tehran for Public Protests against Forced Hijab
CHRI - Police in Tehran have turned 29 people over to the judicial authorities for taking part in a growing…
Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail
CHRI - Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case…
170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps
CHRI- A few weeks after major protests erupted across Iran in December 2017, the majority of the country’s lawmakers signed…
MPs Want To Designate A Place For ‘Legal’ Protests
RFL/RE - Members of parliament in Iran have prepared a motion for “implementing” Article 27 of the Islamic Republic’s Constitution,…
U.S. Sets Sanctions Against Individuals, Companies Linked To Hizballah
RFL/RE - The United States has hit six individuals and seven businesses linked to Lebanon’s Shi’ite Hizballah militia with terrorism-related…