Iran’s historic city of Yazd inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List
PayvandNews - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added the historical texture of Yazd in central Iran to its…
PayvandNews - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added the historical texture of Yazd in central Iran to its…
RFL/RE - Iranian judicial officials say security forces have arrested 21 alleged Islamic State (IS) extremists in the northeastern city of…
Iran Human Rights - On the morning of Wednesday July 5, eight prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison. According…
Amnesty - Iranian spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri is awaiting his second hearing due to take place in July. The authorities…
CHRI - Iranian police units arrested several ethnic Azerbaijani rights activists at a peaceful protest gathering in Ghaleh Babak in East…
CHRI - Three Azeri men and one Iranian man, all Protestant Christian converts, have been sentenced to 10 years in prison…
CHRI - A senior Iranian judicial official has publicly defended the state's mass executions of political prisoners and extended incarcerations of…
CHRI - Despite resistance from security organizations, a bill that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for petty drug-trafficking crimes in…
Al-monitor - Business is increasingly intermixed with politics in Iran’s relations with the world — to the potential detriment to both. For instance,…
Al-monitor - Nearly a month after the Islamic State’s simultaneous attacks on Iran’s parliamentary building and the shrine of the founder of the…