Social and Political

Radiofarda – Iranian news agency ISNA reported on Monday that Ruhani has given the green light for allowing Iranian women to attend football matches. This comes after Ruhani delivered the news in a note to Sports Minister Masoud Soltanifar, who then asked the president how the Ministry for Sport should proceed with this.

Radiofarda – New statistics released by the World Bank reveal that Iran has had a painful economic decline during the past four decades of the Islamic Republic’s clerical rule. It appears that those who take pride in Iran’s widespread military presence in the region, deliberately or unknowingly ignore the collapse of the country’s national economy. New statistics released by the …

Radiofarda – A prosecutor in Fardis, near Tehran says that a dissident who disappeared two weeks ago was killed by her former fiancée.

Radiofarda – An Iranian pilot who recently made revelations about gross safety violations by Iranian airlines was arrested on Sunday, July 15 in Tehran for a few hours. Amin Amir Sadeghi published a video on his Instagram page showing himself handcuffed by the police saying with a smirk that it was shameful that he had been arrested because he made …

Iran-HRM – Iranian students arrested during the widespread December/January protests earlier this year have been sentenced to prison terms. The Appeals Court in Tabriz, northwest Iran, on July 10 upheld a two-year sentence against Roya Saghiri and a six-month prison term for Ali Ghadiri. A three-months prison was also upheld by the Appeals Court against Ali Kamrani, a student of …

VOA – Israel agents broke into an Iranian warehouse and smuggled out tens of thousands of pages and nearly 200 computer discs on Iranian plans to build a nuclear weapon, U.S. media reports say. The New York Times first reported the story in its Sunday edition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used these documents, in part, to urge President Donald …

RFL/RE – Iran’s supreme leader has called on state bodies to support the government of President Hassan Rohani in fighting looming U.S. economic sanctions, saying America’s “conspiracy” could be defeated, Iranian media have reported.

Radiofarda – Maryam Faraji, a 33-year old civil rights activist and dissident, who mysteriously disappeared on Thursday, July 5, has been found dead.

Radiofarda – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he cannot confirm the recent comments made by the top aide of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader that Russia will invest money in Iran.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi says more than 30 million Iranians continue to access the banned messaging app Telegram using two domestic applications Hotgram and Talagram.