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Iranwire – A week after the reopening of Iranian universities, reports from independent student sources indicate a trend of increasing security pressures and the widening scope of repression in universities. A report published on the Amirkabir Newsletter Telegram channel, which covers news related to this university, said that one day after the professors of the Sharif University Professors Union were …

Iranwire – It has been reported that an Iranian court sentenced 17 workers to fines and flogging for protesting last year the management practices of their employer, the state-owned Iran National Steel Industrial Group, and their employment status. According to the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA), the Revolutionary Court of the southern city of Ahvaz ordered the workers to …

Iranwire – Iran’s Shargh newspaper says security forces arrested one of its reporters on October 2. It said that Maryam Lotfi was taken into custody after visiting Fajr Air Force Hospital to report on the situation of a girl who had lost consciousness in the Tehran subway. According to some reports, a high school girl was sent to the hospital …

VOA – Iran said Monday it opposes any “geopolitical changes” in the Caucasus, where it has long been angered over Azerbaijan’s desire to set up a transport link along the Armenian-Iranian border. Foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani, while voicing support for Azerbaijan’s reclamation of the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region last month, said Tehran is “against making geopolitical changes in the region …

Al-Monitor – A Saudi soccer team refused to play an Iranian squad on Monday, reportedly due to a statue on the sidelines depicting slain Iranian commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, an indication of the continued complexities of Iran-Saudi relations. What happened: The Saudi soccer team Al-Ittihad was in the Iranian city of Isfahan for a match against the Iranian club Sepahan at Naghsh-e …

iranintl – US lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill to deny entry to sanctioned individu…

iranintl – Anti-hijab ex-detainee Sepideh Rashno was denied presence at her own trial in Tehra…

Iranwire – Security forces have tightened security in and around Tehran’s Fajr Air Force Hospi…

Iranwire – An Iranian teenager took her own life earlier this week after being suspended from …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities hanged 10 prisoners in Kerman and Shiraz prisons on October 1, …

Iranwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Iranian authorities no…

Iranwire – The UK government has condemned Iran’s recent launch of a military satellite into s…

Iranwire – Younes Azadbar, a labor activist incarcerated in the northern city of Rasht, has de…

RFL/RE – Iranian security forces have detained hundreds of people as protesters in the country…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least five men including two Baluch minorities, were executed …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hamidreza Khodabandeh who was sentenced to death for security-rel…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Jafar Ghaed, a man on death row for murder, was executed in Ahar …

iranintl – Hadi Matar, the man who almost killed Salman Rushdie in New York State last year, m…

Iranwire – The 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma after being pushed by hijab enfor…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested four members of the Baha’i religious minori…

Iranwire – A week after the reopening of Iranian universities, reports from independent studen…

Iranwire – It has been reported that an Iranian court sentenced 17 workers to fines and floggi…

Iranwire – Iran’s Shargh newspaper says security forces arrested one of its reporters on Octob…

VOA – Iran said Monday it opposes any “geopolitical changes” in the Caucasus, wher…

Al-Monitor – A Saudi soccer team refused to play an Iranian squad on Monday, reportedly due to…

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