Iran

Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi calls for election boycott "out of respect for the blood of those killed in recent Iranian protests"

Narges Mohammadi, a civil rights activist imprisoned in Iran, published a short note referring to the government's repression and killing of protesters...

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US State Department official condemns Islamic Republic's harassment of Persian-speaking journalists

A US State Department official announced that the US government is harassing and threatening Persian-speaking journalists abroad…

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The case of "Ruhollah Zam" was also handed over to Judge Salavati; five other people were also arrested.

Nearly four months have passed since Ruhollah Zam's arrest and transfer to Iran, but the judicial system...

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Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on "Poverty and Conflict of Interests" on the Anniversary of the 1978 Revolution

Officials from the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare say they hope to combat rent-seeking and other forms of corruption by signing the "Poverty and Conflict of Interests" Memorandum of Understanding.

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Continuation of Iran-China flights; failure to implement a previously announced decision

According to the Islamic Republic's own officials, all flights between Iran and China should have been suspended. But that's not the case. Some…

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44% of households are not homeowners.

According to official statistics from the Statistical Center of Iran, as of January of this year, the average price per square meter of a residential unit in Tehran…

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Continued repression of freedom of expression in Iran; journalist sentenced to 8 years in prison

Khosrow Sadeghi Borujeni, a journalist and researcher in the field of labor and social welfare, was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.…

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Another proof of Iranian officials' lies about the Ukrainian plane; the control tower was during the missile launch

While it has been more than three weeks since the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in the skies over Tehran, the IRGC has…

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