Iran’s Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part I: The Ones That Got Away
Iranwire - The verdict in a massive corruption case involving the Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company (PCC) was announced on September 5, 2021.…
Biden Greenlights South Korean Release of Funds to Politically Connected Iranian Firm
fdd.org - The Treasury Department on January 6 issued a special license to authorize the South Korean government to pay $63 million…
Ex-UN officials, rights experts urge probe of Iran’s 1988 mass killings
Al-Monitor - A group of former United Nations officials and experts have penned an open letter urging the United Nations…
Top Iran security official retracts comments on talks with US
AL-Monitor - Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has said he will “never endorse direct negotiations with the United…
US Treasury Targets Repression and the Undermining of Democracy
treasury.gov— Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating 15 actors across three…
Firings Of Iranian University Professors Stoke Fears Of New Purge
RFL/RE - Mohammad Fazeli, a prominent Iranian sociologist, had taught at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti university for seven years before he…
In Sign Of Deepening Ties, Taliban Increases Afghanistan’s Water Flow To Iran
RFL/RE - Iran helped the United States topple the Taliban’s brutal regime in Afghanistan in 2001.But more than 20 years…
Iran Arrests 17 Over Social-Media Video Pranks
RFL/RE - Iranian police say they have arrested 17 people suspected of filming candid-camera pranks that boosted their social-media followings…
Thirty More Iranian Officials Accused in London of November 2019 Crimes
Iranwire - A second round of hearings in a landmark “people’s tribunal” examining potential crimes against humanity in the November 2019…
Anousheh Ashouri’s Hunger Strike: “This Time it’s Different”
Iranwire - Barry Rosen’s recent hunger strike in Vienna inspired a new campaign of activism. Among those inspired to show…