The Week in Review: March.1st- March.8th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.8 - Prominent lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was convicted of national security crimes this week, reports the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). A journalist who says they...
The Week in Review: March.8th- March.15th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.15 - Human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for campaigning against mandatory hijab laws in Iran. A day after...
The Week in Review: April.12th – April.19th
By Natasha Phillips
APRIL. 19 - The U.S. State Department’s designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization took effect this week. The Iranian government responded with a reciprocal designation for the U.S. global military...
The Week in Review: Dec.28th-Jan.4th
By Natasha Phillips
4 Jan - As the Iran protests sweep into 2019 with no sign of stopping, the government has responded with more violent clampdowns on farmers and workers striking over pay. In a...
The Week in Review: November.22nd – November.29th
Protests in Iran have left more than 143 people dead, as security officials responded to anti-government demonstrations with brutal force. Banks, government sites and security bases were attacked during the unrest.
The protests, which flared...
The Week in Review: December.20th – December.27th
This week, Iranians mourned the men, women and children that were killed during the Iran Protests in November. Those vigils were interrupted by a heavy show of Iran’s security forces, with reports of several...
The Week in Review: March.22nd – March.29th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.29 - Devastating floods in Iran have left at least 44 people dead and several hundred injured according to the latest reports from Iranian media, with no signs of the floods stopping...
The Week in Review: December.6th – December.13th
A prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran paved the way for hope this week, as both the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif expressed an ongoing interest...
The Week in Review: August.2nd – August.9th
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited reductions to the Iranian government’s defense budget and cuts to its military proxies, as a measure of the Trump administration’s success in pushing back the government’s malign...
The Week in Review: March.15th- March.22nd
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.22 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received a warning this week from Israel that Iran-backed Hezbollah could be winding down its activities in Syria in order to focus on a...
