Social and Political

Iranwire – The family of an Iranian doctor who was tortured and killed by Iranian security forces for treating injured protesters are under pressure to appear on state TV to say she died after falling from a bridge, IranWire has learned. Aida Rostami, 36, was treating protesters in Tehran until she disappeared earlier this week. Her tortured body was handed over …

Iranwire – A prominent Iranian women’s rights activist has written a letter from her prison cell calling on her compatriots to unite behind principles such as democracy and freedoms, as a wave nationwide protests against the clerical regime entered its third month. Bahareh Hedayati said that a revolution to topple the Islamic Republic is “inevitable” because this regime is “the enemy of …

Iranwire – Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is seen as an unofficial crown prince who is responsible for the country’s political, social and economic impasses. However, most of the 83-year-old leader’s other relatives have been critical of his rule spanning over more than three decades. The family’s political views again came into spotlights when …

Robert Green is an American author who has written several New York Times bestsellers including the 48 Laws of Power which has sold more than 1.2 million copies. He recently posted a video expressing his opinions and thoughts on the situation in Iran on his YouTube channel which has been receiving a lot of attention.In his video Green shares several …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Where, also, are the women’s movements of the West? The sister of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Badri Hosseini Khamenei, came out criticizing the whole establishment and calling for the overthrow of her brother’s “despotic caliphate”. “The regime of the Islamic Republic of Khomeini and Ali Khamenei has brought nothing but suffering and oppression to Iran and Iranians. …

RFL/RE – The whereabouts of five female university students in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj are unknown following their arrest earlier this month after they took part in a rally against the execution of protesters, the Union Council of Iranian Students said. The women were arrested by security forces between December 10 and 14, and the council said no …

Iranwire – Iranian oil workers have protested at several production sites in the south of the country demanding higher wages and retirement bonuses, among other things, according to social media posts. The protests purportedly occurred on December 17 amid a wave of nationwide protests that has convulsed Iran for three months, marking the boldest challenge to the Islamic Republic since …

Iranwire – Iranians wounded by the security forces during the ongoing nationwide protests avoid treatment in the country’s increasingly unsafe hospitals for fear of being detained, tortured, prosecuted or killed. The medics ready to brave the risks to help the injured are treating protesters in their offices, the demonstrators’ homes or elsewhere. Aida Rostami, 36, was one of them. She …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has again used his Friday sermon to urge the country’s Shia leadership to show leniency toward the thousands of protesters who have been detained and prosecuted since nationwide protests kicked off more than 13 weeks ago. “Most of these detainees are young teenagers. My advice is not to be hard on them and …

Iranwire – More than 18,000 Iranians have been arrested in the brutal state crackdown on the ongoing wave of nationwide protests, according to human rights defenders, with their houses being searched and their families’ personal belongings such as electronic devices and cars being confiscated. After speaking with nine people in different cities across Iran, IranWire found that the security forces …