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The Islamic Republic continued to suppress freedoms of expression, religion, and the press in 2017, and failed to deliver promised progress on gender equality according to an annual report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published …

Iran appreciates China for its efforts to search the missing Iranian sailors aboard the oil tanker Sanchi, Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei has said as quoted by Xinhua. In a …

Iranian media say a 34-year-old man had a hand chopped off as punishment for stealing livestock in the northeastern province of Razavi Khorasan, RFERL reports. The local, state-sponsored newspaper Khorasan reported that the amputation took …

From escaping Iran through the mountains as a Muslim refugee to surviving domestic abuse and imprisonment in a Turkish prison to carving out a life in Sweden, Annahita Parsan’s story is the stuff of a …

The workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Agri-Industrial Company in the city of Shush (Khuzestan Province) once again went on strike in protest against the non-payment of their salaries and demands. The recent strike …

The Iranian regime is counting arbitrary murders and killing people arrested during the recent nationwide protests across Iran. Each passing day reveals further deaths in custody, Track Persia reports. Ali Pouladi, 26, was arrested in …

A burning Iranian oil tanker exploded and sank Sunday after more than a week listing off the coast of China, as an Iranian official acknowledged there was “no hope” of missing sailors surviving the disaster, …

A series of moderate earthquakes shook Iran on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of victims or damage. An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale has once again jolted Soomar city, a district …

The Iranian company whose oil tanker burst into flames after a collision in the East China Sea said on Wednesday there is still hope of finding survivors as 31 crew members remain missing and rescue …