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Officials: US Campaign to Try to Undermine Iran’s Leaders

VOA — The Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure…

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi’s Sister Banned From Travel as State Continues to Harass Her Family

CHRI - From her cell in an infamous Iranian prison, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has condemned Iran’s judiciary for preventing…

Islamist Hardliners Are Threatening Iran’s Very Survival

PayvandNews - Since last year, Iran's economy has seriously deteriorated as speculators have rushed to exchange national currency for dollars…

Iranian Judiciary Closes Acid Attack Cases With No Convictions But Promises Victims Compensation

CHRI - Nearly four years after a series of acid attacks on women in the Iranian city of Isfahan, the judiciary has…

Activists Note Serious Failings by Iranian Organization Tasked With Supporting People With Disabilities

CHRI - As Iran's State Welfare Organization (SWO) marked its 38th birthday, several people with disabilitiesbased in the country told the Center for…

Iran Overturns Ban On Religious Minority Councillor

Radiofarda - Iranian authorities ruled Saturday that a member of the minority Zoroastrian religion had been wrongly suspended from his…

Iran’s Supreme Leader: Negotiating With U.S. Would Be ‘Obvious Mistake’

RFL/RE - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on July 21 that it would be an "obvious mistake" for…

Pompeo Reaches Out To Iranian-Americans Amid Hard-Line On Iran

RFL/RE - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reach out to a divided Iranian-American community -- some of whom…

Militants Kill 10 Iranian Soldiers Near Iraqi Border

RFL/RE - Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported on July 21 that militants killed 10 soldiers from the Islamic Revolutionary…

Iranian-Born Man With Knife Injures 10 In Attack On German Bus

RFL/RE - An Iranian-born man with a knife injured 10 people in an attack aboard a bus in northern Germany…