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Iranwire – Iran’s Tasnim News Agency has called the behavior of three Iranian karate athletes, at the Karate-1 Premier League competition in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, last week, “unfortunate” and “strange” and called on Iran’s top sports directors to discipline the athletes. Saleh Abazari, Mehdi Khodabakhshi and Keyvan Baban are top karatekas for Iran’s national team; but they were not …

Iranwire – In an audio file received by IranWire, Faezeh Hashemi, an outspoken political activist inside Iran and daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has slammed the Islamic Republic’s capitulating stance toward Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. In the recording, Hashemi can be heard apparently speaking to a small crowd, calling the Islamic Republic’s overall policy stance “tumbling into the …

Iran-HRM – Reports on social media indicate that civil activist and former prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi has been arrested by security forces. Ronaghi is an advocate for human rights and Internet freedom, and has spent several years in prison for his peaceful activities. Officials have not yet responded to reports of his arrest. Meanwhile, his brother, Hassan Ronaghi tweeted …

Iran-HRM – A female civil rights activist was beaten by a non-political inmate who has the support of an official in Kachuei Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. Reports indicate that civil rights activist Yasaman Ariani was attacked by several prisoners detained for common crimes on Wednesday. The women’s rights activist is imprisoned for her opposition to the Iranian regime’s …

CHRI – A proposed bill that would drastically increase the Iranian authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet in Iran has taken a significant step forward, with the passage of the outlines of the bill by a parliamentary committee on February 22, 2022. If ultimately passed, the Bill for the Protection of the Rights of Cyberspace Users, also referred to as the …

Al-Arabia – The US said on Thursday that it was “very close” to reaching an agreement on the b…

iranintl – Iran is one of the world’s largest jailers of journalists, cementing itself a…

iranintl – In a bid to deny the latest revelations about the state murder of teenager Nika Sha…

iranintl – Israel carried out an airstrike on a target near Damascus Thursday night, in what s…

iranintl – A former Iranian regime operative and ideologue, currently residing in Canada, has …

iranintl – On Teacher’s Day, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic often boasts tha…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary executed at least 63 prisoners over the past…

Iranwire – Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh began a hunger strike in Evin Prison on…

Iranwire – The president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Mahmoud Aghamiri, announc…

Iranwire – Hemin Ahmadi, a 45-year-old Kurdish kolbar, was shot and killed by Iranian border f…

Iranwire – Another student has been summoned by the Evin Prosecutor’s Office for protest…

VOA – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by t…

VOA – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that efforts underway to norma…

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Hamas sees Western countries such as Germany as a refuge in wh…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Yaghoub Amiri, a man on death row for drug-related charges, was e…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ali Ashraf Khani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Heyrati, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for…

iranintl – A Bushehr Teachers Union member, Reza Amanifar, was arrested as Iranian educators t…

iranintl – With an approaching run-off election to fill the final 32 parliamentary seats, and …

iranintl – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned about ‘normalization with Israel’ Wednesd…

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