Social and Political

Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities have released one of the country’s best known dissidents after he spent three months in jail as protests shook the country, his brother said. Majid Tavakoli was released on bail from Tehran’s Evin prison after 89 days behind bars, his brother Mohsen wrote on Twitter late on Monday. Tavakoli had been arrested shortly after the start …

RFL/RE – Iranian protesters have opened a new front as their demonstrations over the death of Mahsa Amini enter a fourth month, taking to windows and rooftops to show their anger at the government as they push for more freedoms. Instead of taking to the streets, people have been chanting anti-government slogans from their apartment buildings in several neighborhoods of …

RFL/RE – Iran’s foreign minister and top nuclear negotiator met with the European Union’s foreign policy chief and the bloc’s official coordinating nuclear talks with Iran in Jordan on December 20, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani are said to have met EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and …

Iranwire – On October 26, as thousands of protesters across Iran marked the 40th day since the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police, official news agencies reported a deadly attack on a Shia shrine in the southern city of Shiraz. Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a short news …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s judiciary rejected pleas on Monday to delay sentences against protestors urging prosecutors to carry out verdicts without delay. Since protests began in Iran three months ago, Iran’s judiciary body has been one of the government’s most active branches in the suppression of the demonstrations. Speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council, Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni …

Al-Monitor – As nationwide protests in Iran enter their fourth month, a new proposal from US lawmakers would target not only Iranian officials responsible for the crackdown, but their children, Al-Monitor has learned.  The legislation, led by Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), and Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), is dubbed the Revoking Entry Granted to Iranian Mullahs …

As the Iranian regime is fearing the end drawing closer their expected strategy is to intensify their system of terror in a repressive strategy with the objective of discouraging the uprising of the people. Two young men have thus far been publicly executed following trials that have been severely criticized by the international community. 23-year old Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza …

RFL/RE – A leading Iranian human rights group says a political activist imprisoned in the western Iranian city of Bukan and subsequently transferred to a hospital after falling into a coma amid reports he was tortured has died. Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions, said on December 19 that Mohammad Haji Rasoulpour was arrested …

iran-freedom.org – The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) unveiled a joint initiative backed by over 230 cross-party members of the UK Parliament at a conference in Parliament today in support of the Iranian people’s uprising and their struggle for a free and democratic Iran. In light of the recent execution of protesters in Iran, the initiative sets out five concrete steps …

Iranwire – A second lieutenant of Iran’s elite Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and three members of the paramilitary Basij force have been killed in clashes in the country’s southeast, official media report. Citing an IRGC statement, state-run Press TV said that the four security personnel died on December 19 in an exchange of fire with “counterrevolutionary elements” in the …