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Radiofarda – Enraged by the Islamic Republic’s lack of enthusiasm in containing the novel coronavirus, people of Mazandaran province, northern Iran, have threatened to step in and close the roads to a multitude of non-residents escaping from the highly contaminated regions further south. In a clip widely circulated on social media, the representative of the cities of Chaloos, Kelardasht, and …

Iran-HRM – Shocking evidence contradicts regime’s downplay of Iran’s COVID-19 crisis. Iran’s Ministry of Health said Saturday afternoon Mach 7 that coronavirus has claimed 145 lives from among 5823 Iranians who have been infected by the COVID-19 virus. Gorgan, N #Iran – Sayad Hospital Video shows the hallway of Sayad Hospital filled with beds with #COVID19 patients. Other hospitals in …

Iran-HRM -While numerous reports and videos from Iran indicate severe shortage of medical supplies, the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is stockpiling masks and disinfectants and is selling them at 20 times their price to the public. On March 2, the Iranian regime’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki said in a letter to the Minister of Industry, “The problem of health masks is …

RFL/RE – Days after winning the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof could end up in prison over his work, which has been branded by Iranian judiciary officials as “propaganda against the state.” But he refuses to back down.“I do my best, and the effort is what makes one happy and satisfied, the feeling …

TIME – One afternoon, on a late spring day in 2018, a group of officers from the Iranian Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Intelligence came and arrested me while I was home alone. They took me to Evin Prison in a green taxi. In absentia, I had been sentenced to five years in prison for my work as a …

Radiofarda – Radio Farda has learned from a source very closely involved with Iran’s Coronavirus Combat Taskforce that the official death toll only covers deaths that have been confirmed by coroners, not the tally reported by hospitals across the country. The death toll is much higher, “at least twice as high, maybe even more” according to the source. “The discrepancy …

CHRI – The families of eight conservationists imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges have called on Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to release them on furlough along with the some 54,000 other prisoners who were released in March 2020 after rights organizations expressed serious concerns for their safety amid the country’s deadly COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. The families’ letter was published by the state-run Iranian Labor News Agency in …

PayvandNews – The South Khorasan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department (SKCHTHD) has selected dotar maker Zolfaqar Beitaneh as a Living Human Treasure. The 58-year-old master, who lives in Ferdows, South Khorasan Province, has also skills in crafting a kind of reed flute, which is used in the folk music of Khorasan. Zolfaqar Beitaneh performing(undated photo) “Zolfaqar Beitaneh is the …

Radiofarda – A man who challenged coronavirus health warnings and to make a religious statement licked the grids at a shrine in Iran has been arrested. Videos showing Iranians licking and kissing the grids of Shi’ite holy shrines across the country have gone viral in recent days. The videos are widely circulated on social media at a time of an …

RFL/RE – Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his film titled There Is No Evil, which he made despite being forbidden to do so by the government in Tehran. Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof Rasoulof was not present at the February 29 ceremony to receive the Golden Bear award for the film, which tells …