CHRI – The former director of NASA’s Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysamiand Reza Khandan who were all imprisoned this year in Iran for peacefully advocating human and women’s rights.
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WATCH: At least three dead in bomb attack in Iran’s Chabahar
Al-Arabia – At least three people were killed in a bomb attack in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar on Thursday, state TV reported, adding that many others were injured.
Read More »Iran Human Rights Monitor, 2018 Annual Report
IRAN-HRM – This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being.
Read More »Iran’s Sohrab Moradi wins gold at IWF World Weightlifting Championships
PayvandNews – Sohrab Moradi of Iran claimed a gold medal at the 2018 IWF World Weightlifting Championships on Wednesday. Moradi won a gold in the men’s 96kg in the competition underway in Ashgabat , Turkmenistan. He lifted 186kg in snatch and 230kg in clean and jerk, winning the gold with a total of 416kg.
Read More »ANALYSIS: With unending protests, will these sanctions be toughest ever on Iran?
Al-Arabia – With hours to go before the Iran sanctions deadline painful sanctions on Iran’s oil industry will impose, which the Trump administration says are the toughest penalties ever to be placed on the country.
Read More »Teacher And Civil Activist Arrested In Mashhad
Iran-HRM – Abbas Vahedian, a teacher and civil activist in Mashhad, northeast Iran, has been arrested after a group of intelligence agents raided his home early Thursday morning.
Read More »Petition: To Help FREE 91 year old Dr. #NoorAliTabandeh from House Arrest, a Human Rights Lawyer & Spiritual Leader
Shabtabnews- IOPHR has instigated a campaign to Help FREE 91 year old Dr. #NoorAliTabandeh from House Arrest, a Human Rights Lawyer & Spiritual Leader of over 8 million peaceful Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes. Since February Sufi protest, over 400 Sufi men and women have been arrested, tortured and held in terrible conditions within notorious Iranian prisons, as well placing the 91 …
Read More »US State department condemns human rights violations in Iran
Shabtabnews – Spokesperson Nauert, Senior Policy Brian Advisor Hook, and Ambassador Michael Kozak brief the press on human rights in Iran at the Foreign Press Center in NewYork City on September 28, 2018. In the briefing Ms Nauert condemned the Iranian regime’s oppression of religious minorities like Gonabadi Sufis, Bahia’s, & Christian converts.
Read More »Distracting Tactics of the Iranian Regimes in the UN to block the hearings on human rights violations in Iran
Shabtab- The Iranian regime not only regularly violates the rights of its citizens, but as the following clip shows, it is ready to adopt distracting tactics in order to stop any mention of these violations within established world bodies.
Read More »WATCH: The story behind Iran’s paradoxical battle against social media
Al-Arabia – Iran’s Foreign Minister has used Twitter to speak out against Twitter, despite Iran officially blocking Twitter. Here’s the full story.
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