Radiofarda – Following an attack on the pavilion of the Free-Thinking Association of Allameh Tabatabaei University by hardliner students in Iran, the president of the college, Hossein Salimi, has promised to discipline all involved. However, Salimi immediately added that the students should also respect the “red lines” of the regime; a warning to independent students. Last Monday, September 23, members …
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Senior Official Defending Sanctions Says US Not Preventing Humanitarian Aid
Radiofarda – A senior U.S. Treasury Department official has told Radio Farda in an interview September 25 that Iran’s Central Bank was recently sanctioned for “funneling billions of U.S. dollars and euros to finance terror”. Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said the United States has exposed the activities of Central Bank of Iran …
Read More »Trump Blasts ‘Repressive’ Iran At UN, Calls For Action Against Country’s ‘Bloodlust’
RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his policy on Iran before the UN General Assembly and called on all nations to act against Tehran and not “subsidize Iran’s bloodlust.” “One of the greatest security threats facing peace-loving nations today is the repressive regime in Iran,” Trump told world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York on …
Read More »Saudis Say Weapons Debris Proves Iran Behind Oil Attack, U.S. Denounces ‘Act Of War’
RFL/RE – Saudi Arabia has put on a display of drone and missile fragments that it said showed a weekend attack targeting the kingdom’s crucial oil industry was “unquestionably sponsored by Iran.” Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told a news conference in Riyadh on September 18 that 18 drones and seven cruise missiles struck from a direction that ruled …
Read More »Iran Tortures Young Man to Death in Fars Province
Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities tortured a young man identified as Javad Khosravanian to death in Fars Province, southwest Iran a few days ago. Reports indicate the state security forces picked up Javad Khosravanian from his home in Khorrambid of Fars Province on Friday, August 30, 2019. He was then taken to a criminal investigation department in the city where he …
Read More »Campaign to free Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh the leader of Gonabadi Sufis from Exile
Shabtabnews – Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh , born on 13th October 1927, in Beydokht, Gonabad, Iran, also known by his spiritual title of Majzoub Ali Shah, is the spiritual leader or the Qutb of the Ni’matullahi (Sultan Ali Shahi) Gonabadi Order in Iran, which is the largest Sufi order in Iran.[ Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, is a distinguished member of the global …
Read More »Pompeo Says U.S. Will Keep Strait Of Hormuz Open
Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reiterated that his country will keep the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf open to maritime traffic, amid high tensions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a talk at the Economic Club of Washington D.C. on July 29, Pompeo responded to a question about the U.S. commitment to keep …
Read More »Protest Outside National Iranian American Council
Shabtabnews – Iranians living in the United States gathered in front of the office of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in Washington, D.C., on July 19. A statement read out by protesters at the event described the NIAC as “the representative of the corrupt and brutal Islamic Republic regime.” According to the statement, the protest was aimed at informing …
Read More »Richard Ratcliffe: IRGC is Holding My Wife “Incommunicado” in a Psychiatric Ward
CHRI – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been denying Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe all contact with the outside world since she was transferred to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Tehran on July 15, 2019. In an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 19, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s London-based husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said it was …
Read More »Identifying and introducing the mass graves of executed in 1980’s massacres in Kazerun
HRANA – The 1980’s executions of the Iranian political prisoners were a series of state-sponsored execution of political prisoners across Iran. The unlawful mass execution is an undeniable truth and a cruel part of contemporary history in Iran. These executions took place between 1981-1988 nationwide and the victims had been buried in distorted areas. During the 1988 executions of the …
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