Saeed Namaki’s Farewell Letter as Health Minister Delays Vaccine Delay Explanations
Iranwire - The Minister of Health of Hassan Rouhani's former government, Saeed Namaki, said in a letter on his last…
Israel Expected to Push Hard-line Stance on Iran in Talks With US
VOA - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is expected to urge his American counterpart to take a hard-line stance on…
Iran: Leaked video footage from Evin prison offers rare glimpse of cruelty against prisoners
amnesty.org - Leaked surveillance footage from Evin prison showing appalling abuse of prisoners serves as a chilling reminder of the…
Fact Sheet: LGBTQ Community in Iran Faces Deadly Violence and Severe Rights Abuses
CHRI —In a new LGBTQ Fact Sheet published today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), the extreme rights violations…
Raisi’s foreign minister pick indicates change for Iranian policy
Al-Monitor - Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly, or parliament, will consider President Ebrahim Raisi’s Cabinet on Aug. 25. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the…
Iran’s Prison Chief Apologizes After Leaked Abuse Videos
RFL/RE - In a rare admission by Iranian authorities, the head of the country's prisons apologized for "unacceptable behavior" in…
Iranian Refugee Artist ‘Trapped’ in Taliban’s Afghanistan
Iranwire - Asylum law in Afghanistan was never ratified by the Afghan parliament before the Taliban’s takeover in mid-August. The…
Iranian Lawyers, Activists Discuss Suing the Supreme Leader
Iranwire - Iranians have been comparing deaths from Covid-19 in their country to the falling of leaves in autumn. Mourning…
Interrogator to Mehran Qareh Baghi: We will detain you so long that you would lose your sanity
Iran-HRM - The interrogators and torturers of the Intelligence Department of Ahvaz have been torturing and harassing political prisoner Mehran…
Shahbaz Jadidi Secretly Executed in Yasuj Prison Last Month
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner named Shahbaz Jadidi who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was secretly executed in…