Islamic Republic

Pouya Bakhtiari's father: I fought on the front lines for five years, and in response, they targeted my son's brain

Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, said in an interview with Radio Farda that his 27-year-old son was killed in Mehrshahr on Saturday, November 15,…

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People under 18 arrested during protests are in 'bad conditions'

After two weeks of the November protests, and while the Islamic Republic authorities have yet to announce the number of those arrested…

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The New York Times described the Iranian protests as the "worst" unrest in 40 years.

The New York Times newspaper, in its first headline on its website on Sunday, December 1, 2019, mentioned that at least 180 people were killed in…

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Transitional Management Council calls for UN intervention to prevent killing of protesters in Iran

The Transitional Management Council, a coalition of forces opposed to the Islamic Republic, has written a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling for his intervention...

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Anniversary of the Murder of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar; A Crime for Which the Main Instigators Were Never Tried

The 1st of December marks the anniversary of the murder of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, critics of the Islamic Republic; a murder whose main perpetrators were never punished…

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10-day silence on Iran protests death toll; protesters shot at "close range"

After 10 days of nationwide protests in Iran, the authorities of the Islamic Republic have still not released any official statistics on the number of deaths and arrests...

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Netanyahu: Iran is the biggest terrorist regime against its own citizens

The Israeli Prime Minister called the Iranian government “the greatest terrorist regime against its citizens.” Benjamin Netanyahu called the Islamic Republic a “dictatorship…

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“Europe is Europe, Iran is us, not them”

Many European cities have been the scene of Iranians living abroad expressing solidarity with domestic protests in recent days. On Wednesday, November 20, hundreds of people…

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