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Iranwire – Border forces of the Islamic Republic in the western Kurdistan province have shot and seriously injured five kolbars amid an escalation of violence against the transborder porters.  Hengaw Human Rights Organization reported that the forces on March 6 directly fired at the kolbars near the border of Hengejal and threatened them with death before forcing them to call …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s so-called “elections” stand out as a grotesque parody of democracy. Yet… the mainstream Western media persistently mislabel these charades as “elections,” thereby bestowing legitimacy upon a regime entrenched in authoritarianism and dictatorship. For decades, Iranians have endured oppression, censorship, and violence at the hands of a regime that masquerades as a legitimate government while trampling on their …

CHRI – Peaceful Protesters Subjected to Excessive Force, Torture, Rape, and Arbitrary Executions  Call to Action: UN Human Rights Council Members Urged to Extend Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur Mandates March 8, 2024 – Grave human rights violations perpetrated by the government of Iran since the outbreak of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in September 2022, which include atrocities that …

iranintl- A former Iranian minister has made unprecedented comments about the disastrous economic and cultural situation in the country that has prompted Iranians to believe that change is inevitable. Reza Amiri Salehi’s comments in the centrist Entekhab website appeared shortly after an election on March 1 with the lowest turnout in the 45-year history of the Islamic Republic. The website quoted …

iranintl – President Joe Biden avoided the subject of Iran almost entirely in his State of the Union address on Thursday, focusing on issues that may be more advantageous for him in an election year. In what largely sounded like an early campaign speech, Joe Biden mentioned the word Iran only once –and the word nuclear not even once, as …