Iran’s Journalists Are Prime Target In Run-Up to Mahsa Amini Anniversary
By Natasha Phillips
Journalists in Iran face further ill treatment by Iranian authorities in the run-up to the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s death, according to Yegi Rezaian, the senior Middle East and North Africa researcher for the...
Iran Faces New Wave of Protests, Despite Repressive Tactics, Says Analyst Ghafouri
By Natasha Phillips
The Islamic Republic faces another wave of protests in the run-up to the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, even though it has developed new tactics and methods to suppress the...
ANALYSIS: Islamic Republic Is Defied In Muharram Religious Processions
By Hamed Mohammadi
Religious processions held across Iran during the Holy month of Muharram to mourn the martyrdom of Shia’s third Imam Hussain (626 AD-680 AD) -- the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad – were...
Amnesty International Reports on Iran’s Crackdown to Enforce Hijab, Including Vehicle Confiscation
By Natasha Phillips
More than a million women have been threatened with confiscation of their vehicles since April 15, after surveillance cameras caught them driving without their headscarves on, Amnesty International said.
The findings, published in a...
Iranian Chess Player Who Removed Hijab Gets Spanish Citizenship
MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian chess player who moved to Spain in January after she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her at home has been granted Spanish citizenship, Spain...
Protester Ahmad Batebi, Face of Iran’s 1999 Revolt, Speaks to Kayhan Life
By Ahmad Rafat
Tehran University students staged a mass protest on July 9, 1999, after the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence shut down the Salam newspaper for publishing a secret memo by the former deputy intelligence...
Call For Un Rights Chief To Prevent Execution of Iranian Boxer
GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Dozens of rights activists as well as prominent lawyers and former prosecutors have written to the U.N. Human Rights chief urging him to intervene to try to prevent the execution of...
Iran’s Government Tightens Curbs on Dissent
https://kayhanlife.com/iran-protests/irans-government-must-stop-executions-of-protesters-says-un-fact-finding-mission/
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests...
Iran’s Morality Police Resume Hijab Street Patrols
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The head of police in Iran, Saeed Montazer Al-Mahdi, on Sunday (July 16) announced the revival of the morality police's hijab patrols.
STORY: "From today, police patrols will be established throughout the country. In addition...
