U.S. Targets Iranian Officials for Rights Violations, Censorship
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday imposed sanctions on four senior Iranian law enforcement and military officials involved in crushing protests that erupted last year after an Iranian woman died in the custody...
Macron’s Talk Of ‘New’ Deal With Iran May Not, In Fact, Be New
By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's talk this week of a "new deal with Iran" may not, in fact, represent anything new nor a deal with...
Niece of Khamenei Urges World to Cut Ties With Tehran Over Unrest -Online Video
DUBAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's niece, a well known rights activist, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran over its violent crackdown on popular unrest kindled...
IRGC Agent Fails to Kill Sunni Leader, Local News Website Reports
By Kayhan Life Staff
On June 19, security personnel at the Makki Grand Mosque in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, reportedly foiled a plot by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Violated Women in Evin Prison, Former Political Prisoner Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped women detainees in Evin prison during official visits to the jail in 2009, according to former political prisoner Marziyeh Amirizadeh.
Amirizadeh was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for converting...
Seven days in the month of Dey; The initial brief report of the first...
HRANA – The Center of Statistics at Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) has published this report regarding the recent seven days of protests in Iran which occurred from December 28, 2017 to January...
Iranian Job-Seekers Say They Are Hit Hard By the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Roshanak Astaraki
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the economies of most countries around the world and resulted in millions of job losses. Iran, which already faces double-digit inflation and rampant unemployment, is among the...
France Has Not Ruled Out Declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to Be a Terrorist Group
By John Irish
PARIS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had not ruled out the idea that the European Union designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, a day after Germany...
Iran Court Confirms 8-Year Sentence for French Tourist in Spying Case
DUBAI, June 28 (Reuters) - An Iranian appeals court has confirmed an eight-year, eight-month sentence for jailed French national Benjamin Briere on spying charges, one of his Iranian lawyers, Saeid Dehghan, tweeted on Tuesday.
Briere was arrested in Iran in May 2020 after flying a helicam...
U.N. Urges Iran Not to Use ‘Unnecessary’ Force During Protests
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Friday for Iranian security forces to refrain from using "unnecessary or disproportionate force" against anti-government protests triggered by the death of a woman in...
