Social and Political

barrons.com – Iran paid tribute Saturday to a teenager who died of severe burns after having rescued two women neighbours trapped in a fire in their apartment building. Fifteen-year-old Ali Landi died of his injuries on Friday, two weeks after he helped the women escape their burning home and tried to throw a gas cylinder out of the window to …

Iranwire – Documents received by IranWire has shown that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the former mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017, provided the Intelligence Unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-IU) with no fewer than 23 parcels of land and property in the Iranian capital to be used as “safe houses”. The project, codenamed “Martyr Shateri”, involved the IRGC-IU’s …

Iranwire – A social sciences expert with in-depth knowledge of Iran has disputed official figures about the number of children who have been left as orphans after losing one or both parents to coronavirus, stating that the actual figure was somewhere closer to three times the stated number. The social affairs deputy for Iran’s Welfare Organization, Habibolah Masoudi Farid, told Jam-e Jam newspaper …

Iranwire – On September 19, 2021, the Iranian state-owned IRNA News Agency reported the death of a fisherman in the Hor al-Azim wetlands, Khuzestan province. According to IRNA, the man was killed in an explosion after a leak in the gas transmission pipe of a nearby petrochemical facility. Two other local fishermen, the report said, were hospitalized with serious injuries. …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have failed to explain at least 72 deaths in custody since January 2010, a report by Amnesty International has revealed. The inaction comes even as more than half of the recorded deaths allegedly resulted from torture or ill-treatment by officials. A major spike in deaths in custody was also recorded in 2020, in the aftermath of the …

VOA – A former Afghan policeman who says he is out of work under the new Taliban government is one of thousands of Afghans who have fled over the border to Iran in recent weeks. Abdul Ahad, a 22-year-old former officer, told VOA that he is leaving the country because he “has no hope for a future” in Afghanistan. “I …

Iran-HRM – A Kurdish prisoner died under torture on September 23 at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. The man was identified as 22-year-old Amirhossein Hatemi. He was from Ilam, western Iran, and residing in Tehran. An informed source said he was killed under severe beatings of batons to his head by the prison guards. The source said Amirhossein was working in …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s new foreign minister said Friday that Tehran will “very soon” resume its participation in talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will return to the table of negotiations. We are reviewing the Vienna negotiations files currently and, very soon, Iran’s negotiations with the ‘four plus one’ countries will recommence,” Foreign Minister Hossein …

RFL/RE – A senior U.S. official has expressed growing impatience at a lack of Iranian movement toward talks on reviving a moribund nuclear agreement with world powers and cited fears of a “Plan B” that keeps Tehran on a dangerous atomic path.But the unnamed official also said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had not attached any date to when …

Iranwire – An Iranian former kolbar has completed a 115km protest journey from Marivan to Sanandaj, Kurdistan province with the aid of a wheelchair. Kamran Doplurei, 31, who has two artificial legs, completed the trip on Wednesday, September 15. He embarked on the pilgrimage to raise awareness of three issues: the shooting of kolbars by Iranian border guards, sub-standard treatment of the …