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RFL/RE – Fourteen Iranian women’s rights activists have called for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and for a “full transition” which would allow the adoption of a new constitution granting equal rights to women.The activists, including lawyer Guiti Pourfazel, said in an August 5 statement published online that four decades of theocratic rule has led to “gender …

VOA – Iran asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to push back against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as a “dangerous precedent.” In a letter to Guterres, Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi accused the United States of a “brazen violation of the fundamental principles of international …

Amnesty – Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been subjected to enforced disappearance since 29 July, when Iranian authorities transferred him from Tehran’s Evin prison to an unidentified location. He is under pressure to “confess” to new crimes and has been threatened with the implementation of his death sentence if he does not. Fifth UA: 038/17 Index: MDE 13/0853/2019 Iran Date: …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least 38 prisoners have been executed in Iran in July 2019. This is the highest number of executions in a month in the country during the past 20 months. According to the IHR statistic department, at least 37 prisoners have been executed in different Iranian prisons and one hanged in public. Most of the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – What, one has to ask, does Iran’s Islamic regime have to fear from the country’s Christians, Baha’is, Zoroastrians, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, or Jews? Yet its treatment of these minorities is so repressive that it seems not unreasonable to ask if the clerics might be afraid of what they consider challenges to their fantasy of pure Islamic identity. So …