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Radiofarda – The Iranian Writers Association on Friday said security forces prevented the friends and fans of Ahmad Shamlou, prominent poet and writer, from paying tribute to him on his death anniversary. A statement published on Friday on the Writers Association’s Facebook page said some of the board members who had gone to a cemetery in Karaj where he is …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Now, however, it seems that, for the first time, the Khomeinist ruling elite is beginning to understand that it can neither reshape the world nor join it on its own antediluvian terms. Unable to admit that reality, the Tehran ruling elite is trying to conjure a fantasy world in which the Islamic Republic retains some relevance. Zarif is …

Shabtabnews – In a today’s statement “The international organisation to preserve human rights (IOPHR) decries the lack of independence of Iran’s judiciary, and its collaborations in human right violations of the Iranian Regime, despite the provisions within the Iranian Constitution requiring the Judiciary to uphold individual and social rights.” The statement further states ” history of the Iranian judiciary over …

Radiofarda – An Iranian women’s rights activist said on Saturday she has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for protesting after the government admitted to downing a Ukrainian civilian airliner in January. Bahare Hedayat said on Twitter that she has received four years in prison for partaking in the January protests and an additional eight months for …

Radiofarda – Iran’s former Queen Farah Pahlavi in a statement, issued on the 40th anniversary of her husband’s death, says Iran has turned into a “poor, needy and hungry” country after forty years of “misconduct, mismanagement and corruption” by the Islamic Republic. The last king of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi died in 1980 after being overthrown by revolutionaries in …