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Iranwire – IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. After a short altercation with the security guards of the president’s office and the Foreign Ministry, the Guards took a number of documents from the premises.  The raids took …

Iranwire – Late on Thursday, IranWire learned that the offices of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had been raided earlier in the day by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence Unit. Documents were seized from the two offices during the incident. It fell on the same day as government spokesman Ali Rabiei had …

Iranwire Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the November 2019 protests, has been beaten up and arrested by the Islamic Republic’s security forces. His mother released a video on Thursday, April 29, 2021, announcing the shocking details of her son’s detention. Poya Bakhtiari’s grandmother said Manouchehr had been arrested at his brother’s house during …

Iranwire – Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi has spoken out about the plight of prisoners’ families, providing a detailed account of the harassment and threats they endure and the pressures they face. In an appeal to Javid Rahman, the United Nations Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Iran, Sadeghi said the human rights of these families were being systematically violated and cited widespread …

VOA – The United States has reiterated its concern about Iran’s poor human rights record in its first official comment on the Islamic republic’s election last week to the United Nations’ top legislative body on women’s rights. But it fell short of the explicit denunciation of the outcome that many rights advocates had hoped for. The remarks, which were provided …