Chain of teenage suicides shakes impoverished Iranian town
Al-Monitor - At least six children have died over the past months in what has been described as a “nightmarish” chain…
Social and Political
Trump Reportedly Asked Aides About Options For Striking Iranian Nuclear Site
RFL/RE - With two months left in office, U.S. President Donald Trump asked top aides about options to strike Iran's…
IranWire Exclusive: Most Iranians Don’t Trust the Government on Covid-19
iranwire.com - An independent poll conducted for IranWire has found the majority of Iranians do not fully trust the officials…
An Afghan Refugee’s Tale of Escaping from an Iranian Cauldron
iranwire.com - Mohammad Gol is one of thousands of Afghan refugees in Iran, and his story is a familiar one. Like…
Weekly Review of Censorship: How a Reporter-Interrogator Tried to Steal a Hashtag
iranwire.com - Over the past week Iranians have taken to Twitter en masse to share their personal accounts of what…
Former Iranian PM Mousavi, under house arrest, tests positive for COVID-19
Al-Monitor - Former Iranian Prime Minister and opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife have contracted COVID-19 while under…
Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019 killings – new investigation
Amnesty - The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale…
Khamenei and the US: No Audacity for Peace, No Courage for War
iranwire.com - More than once before his death in January 2017, the former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani asserted that he…
A Year After the Bloody Protests, Iran Still Tries to Control the Price of Petrol
iranwire.com - November 2019 saw the bloodiest street protests in Iran’s modern history. Media agencies and human rights organizations around…
Series of Teen Suicides Shocks an Iranian City
iranwire.com - A spate of suicides among teenage students in the city of Ramhormoz in Khuzestan province has sparked fear in the…