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UN Panel Asks Iran To Protect Women, Minors And Improve Human Rights

Radiofarda – A United Nations panel of 33 member states reviewed Iran’s human rights record in Geneva on Friday and voicing criticism offered their recommendations to improve women’s and minority rights and stop capital punishment. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has made similar recommendations in the past but the human rights situation in Iran has shown little or …

Iran’s Nuclear Brinksmanship Is Bound To Backfire

Radiofarda – What could Iran’s ayatollahs be thinking? On November 5th, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced that his government was planning to restart sensitive nuclear work prohibited under the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). (The regime has since done so, injecting uranium gas into its centrifuges at its nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow.) …

Radiofarda – In a live Instagram video show, Iran’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) minister has responded to accusations of nepotism and influencing government contracts. The youngest member of President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, insisted that behind recent accusations of nepotism against him are some telecommunication providers who engage in fraudulent activities that he had been fighting …

Jailed Rights Defender Says Prison Or Not, It Makes No Difference In Iran

Radiofarda – “In an era of injustice in Iran, being behind bars, or not, makes no difference”, the renowned imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, has told French publication, L’Obs, previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur. L’obs has introduced Ms. Sotoudeh as the number one enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adding she is a tiny, …

Iran says it is now enriching uranium to five percent

Al-Arabia – Iran said Saturday it is now enriching uranium to five percent, after a series of steps back from its commitments under a troubled 2015 accord with major powers. The deal set a 3.67 percent limit for uranium enrichment but Iran announced it would no longer respect it after Washington unilaterally abandoned the agreement last year and re-imposed crippling …

Iranwire – Taraneh Alidoosti, Mustafa Al-Ahmad, Bahareh Hedayat, Narges Mohammadi, Arash Sadeg…

iranintl – Fifteen former Iran hostages have censured the Swedish government for “lack of mean…

iranintl – Actress Taraneh Alidoosti and filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad have been diagnosed with d…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has executed three more prisoners, including…

Iranwire – As protests erupted against the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, the T…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a disabled man to four years in prison for ̶…

Iranwire – The police commander of the Islamic Republic revealed that 32 agencies are responsi…

Iranwire – Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has condemned the deat…

Iranwire – Local sources in Sistan and Baluchistan province reported on April 25 that six Iran…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire n…

VOA – The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones…

Iran Human Rights – Ali Khoshavaz, a man on death row for drug-related charges, and Shahram Sh…

iranintl – As much of the global media scrambled to decode where Iranians stand on the escalat…

.iranintl – Two weeks into the latest round of violent crackdowns on Iranian women refusing to…

iranintl – An increasing number of Iranian politicians, media outlets, and senior clerics are …

Iranwire – The death sentence handed down to protest rapper Toomaj Salehi has sparked a wave o…

Iranwire – A new report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center has named Sistan and…

Iranwire – The Dadban legal group has issued a grave warning regarding the imminent execution …

Iranwire – Forty nurses and operating room staff of a Tehran hospital have collectively resign…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran executed four prisoners as death penalties continue to…

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