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Iranians Targeted for Helping the Families of Political Prisoners

iranwire.com – On the suggestion of the Prisons Organization, May 25 has been designated the national day of support for prisoners’ families, known as Nasim-e Mehr [Breeze of Love]. The families and loved ones of people in prison, according to Iranian government officials, are not criminals and should be supported by wider society. In October this year the 18th General Assembly of …

iranwire.com – A child who drowned at the fishing port of Bandar Deir has been identified as seven-year-old Ali Asghar Mousavizadeh, whose 11-year-old brother Mohammad Mousavizadeh committed suicide in October. The Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting state media, reported that Mohammad Mousavizadeh had killed himself due to “poverty, not having a phone …

US takes down websites belonging to Iran-backed groups in Iraq

Al-Arabia – The US Justice Department has seized a website belonging to Iraq’s paramilitary Badr Organization in what one expert said is part of a broader US attempt to pressure Iran-backed groups in the country. “There’s been much more pressure on the groups as a whole,” Phillip Smyth, an analyst at the Washington Institute told Al Arabiya English. The latest …

Radiofarda – In a criticism of President Hassan Rouhani’s government, a member of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office, Rasool Sanaei Rad, said that those seeking “a resumption of negotiations with the United States” had “partisan and electoral goals.” Speaking to the state-run Mehr News Agency (MNA) on Friday, Rad, the deputy of the “Political Ideological Bureau of the Commander-in-Chief” for …

Iranian Writers Association Member Arrested

Radiofarda – The Iranian Writers Association announced on Sunday that Iranian intelligence agents detained Amin Moradi, a poet and member of the organization. The statement says the security forces stormed Moradi’s home on Saturday morning. They ransacked the place for two hours, confiscated Moradi’s belongings, including two laptops, a computer, a cellphone and an unknown number of books, and transferred …

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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