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Iranwire Exclusive: Iran’s Ex-Foreign Minister Zarif Criticizes Hardliners and Election Process

Iranwire – In an exclusive audio file obtained by IranWire, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, reveals what he thinks of the hardliners who have “taken over” Iran in the past few years. Zarif says two former top officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated the March 1 elections, and the two main …

Iranwire – Iran’s economy has significantly fallen behind its regional competitors over the past half-century, according to a new report by the data analysis group Iran Open Data. The report highlights a stark contrast between Iran’s economic standing in the 1970s and its current position. Just seven years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran boasted an economy twice the size …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested five Azeri activists amid a growing crackdown on ethnic minority rights. Siamak Seifi, Milad Zeinolabedini, Samad Heydari, Amin Taghizadeh, and Amir Taghizadeh were arrested by security forces in northwestern Tabriz on March 13, according to the HRANA human rights activist news agency. They were detained upon leaving a football stadium, and the charges against …

Iranwire – A 21-year-old woman, Negar Karimian, was killed on March 9 after the Islamic Republic’s police forces opened fire on a civilian vehicle in western Lorestan province. The incident occurred at approximately 1:00 am at an intersection in the Aligudarz district. Karimian, a resident of Isfahan, was returning home with her family from a funeral when their Peugeot 405 …

Iranwire – The wife of Mashallah Karami, imprisoned father of Mohammad Mehdi, a young protester executed in 2023, is suffering from significant mental and emotional distress, a lawyer said. According to Ali Ardakani, Karami’s representatives have requested Alborz province’s judicial officials to release their client on bail. Ardakani, along with his colleague Shahla Owji, said in an interview with the Emtedad news …

alarabiya – Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of strikes bla…

iranintl – Ali-Reza Asgari, the once distinguished Iranian Major General in the regime’s power…

iranintl – Authorities in Iran have launched a fierce battle with Iranian women over the enfor…

iranintl – The US Senate on Tuesday night unanimously passed a foreign aid package which inclu…

Iranwire – Farshad Dastmardi, a protester in Dehdasht, was subjected to horrific torture tacti…

Iranwire – Samereh Mokhtarpour, a 38-year-old woman from northwestern Salmas, was killed by he…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed three more prisoners amid a significant r…

Iranwire – Mashallah Karami, the father of a young man executed last year, was finally given a…

Iranwire – Several cities in the Kerman, Isfahan, and Yazd provinces of Iran have experienced …

Iranwire – Saman Yasin, a Kurdish rapper arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, wa…

VOA – The U.S. ramped up its sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, designating four people and tw…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media reported the execution of Hadi Mirgozar for murder ch…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hossein Ali Sobhani, a man on death row for drug-related charges,…

Amnesty – This is Amnesty International’s annual report on the state of human rights in Iran d…

CHRI – Black Tuesday Campaign by Prisoners Builds in Desperate Effort to Halt Surging Executio…

iranintl – Around 4 am on April 19, Isfahan province was jolted by three powerful explosions. …

iranintl – The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has reiterated plans to expand …

iranintl – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a new report revealing instances of rape, tor…

RFL/RE – Russia has continued to show blatant disregard for human rights both in its unprovoke…

RFL/RE – Iranian dissident rapper Saman Yasin, who was detained during nationwide protests in …

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