The protests of workers, peasants and other poor people throughout the country, who are deprived of their fundamental rights and unable to provide the basic living needs, continues, the National Council of Resistance of Iran …
Iran has sentenced an Iranian-American art dealer and his wife to prison for being Zoroastrians, under a little-used law that can target dual nationals, a New York-based human rights group said Wednesday. It is the …
Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI)reports. “As far as we …
Baquer Namazi, an Iranian-American who has been imprisoned in Iran since February 2016, has been discharged from an Iranian hospital and granted a four-day leave by the Iranian government, according to his family and the …
Amnesty called on the Iranian government to release an unnamed woman arrested for taking off her headscarf in public to protest the Islamic dress code, Daily Mail reports. A footage showing the woman standing on a …
The Iranian Parliament passed a bill that had been submitted to them four years ago and is aimed at joining the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime. The resolution is the main international instrument in …
Iranian authorities banned last month the popular messaging app Telegram in an effort to quell protests and prevent protesters from sharing photos and videos of the rallies. However, it was Iran’s small business community which …
Newly-released documentary evidence detailing “years of relentless oppression” suffered by the Baha’i community in Iran has been published by the Washington-based Baha’i International Community (BIC) this week, Track Persia reports. A BIC website published thousands …
The black box of the Iranian sunken oil tanker “Sanchi” and the freighter CF Crystal, the two vessels that collided in the worst oil ship disaster in decades, has been opened in the presence of …
A report by Iran’s Interior Ministry has revealed that public dissatisfaction and distrust along with plots by foreign enemies have been the root causes of the recent unrest in Iran, Iran Front Page reports. The …
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