Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Murdered Taxi Passenger Elaheh Hosseinnejad Was Raped, Reports Say 

By Natasha Phillips News agencies are claiming that Elaheh Hosseinnejad -- a 24-year-old woman who went missing last month after using a taxi service -- was raped before her murder. They are basing their claims...
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International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Supports Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike: Interview with Dr....

By Nazenin Ansari The nationwide strike by truck drivers in Iran has now entered its third week, halting freight operations and causing significant disruptions to supply chains in over 163 cities across the country. Reports...

Nobel Laureate Ebadi Says UNICEF Neglects Iran’s Children

By Natasha Phillips The prominent Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi has accused UNICEF of being negligent over its care of vulnerable children in Iran, and has sent a letter of complaint to the United...
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Iran Executes Man Accused of Spying for Israel, Mizan Reports

DUBAI, May 28 (Reuters) - A man accused of spying for Israel was executed in Iran, according to a report from judiciary news outlet Mizan on Wednesday that named the defendant as Pedram Madani. ...

Iranian Filmmaker Roustayi Concerned About Return Home Despite Cautious Cannes Film

By Michaela Cabrera and Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 23 (Reuters) - Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustayi said on Friday that he was careful in how he shot his Cannes Film Festival entry "Woman and Child", which never...

Iran Executes Man Responsible for Azerbaijan Embassy Attack

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - A man charged over a fatal shooting at Azerbaijan's embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran, was executed on Wednesday, Iran's judiciary news outlet Mizan said. The shooting, which took place in January...

Iran Abstains on Landmark Pandemic Agreement Vote by World Health Organization Members

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, May 20 (Reuters) - Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday to better prepare for future pandemics following the disjointed global response to COVID-19, but the absence of...

Iran Executes Man Accused of Spying for Israel

DUBAI, April 30 (Reuters) - An Iranian man convicted of espionage and intelligence cooperation with Israel was executed on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of high-stakes nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Entangled in a decades-long...

ANALYSIS: How Iran’s Government Has Weaponized Sexual Violence Against Women Who Dare to Resist

By Mina Fakhravar / The Conversation In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields. The protest movement erupted after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, who was arrested by Iran’s...

US Judge Blocks Trump’s Shutdown of Government-Funded Radio Broadcasts

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to halt its efforts to shut down government-funded radio broadcasts of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle...