20 May, 2020 Iranian Dissident told she cannot have full back surgery recovery prior to prison term Iranian authorities have told a female dissident recently sentenced to more than three years in prison that she will get only two months to recover from a ...
15 May, 2020 Press-rights group urges Iran to release journalist jailed for BBC interview The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Iran to release a journalist serving an 18-month sentence in a notorious Tehran prison for giving an ...
13 May, 2020 Iranian army denies vessel hit by navy friendly fire The Iranian army on Wednesday denied a logistic vessel was hit by friendly navy fire during military drills in the Persian Gulf this weekend.
12 May, 2020 Iran’s continuing cyber-mischief during the coronavirus crisis Iranian hackers and propaganda networks have been working overtime during the novel coronavirus pandemic. In the first week of May, Israel’s ClearSky cybersecurity reportedly discovered the attempted ...
12 May, 2020 Pakistan says Iran forced 5000 of its nationals over border despite request to wait Iran forced about 5,000 Pakistani nationals over the border into Balochistan, despite a plea by Islamabad to wait until quarantine facilities were ready to accommodate them, Foreign ...
14 Apr, 2020 Iran Keeping up to 100 Baha’is in prisons under virus threat An international organization representing Baha’is says it is extremely concerned about Iran’s ongoing detention of up to 100 Baha’is at risk of contracting the coronavirus in Iranian ...
13 Apr, 2020 Iran’s US-sanctioned banks operating freely in Germany Without the assistance of Iran’s banks, it is difficult to imagine that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and it elite branch the Quds Force would have ...
09 Apr, 2020 Prisoners killed by security forces during COVID-19 pandemic protests Around 36 prisoners in Iran are feared to have been killed by security forces after the use of lethal force to control protests over COVID-19 safety fears, ...
26 Mar, 2020 Iran leader refuses US help Iran's supreme leader refused U.S. assistance Sunday to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory claiming the virus could be man-made by America.
26 Mar, 2020 Iran uses arrests censorship to silence critical coronavirus coverage As coronavirus spreads in Iran, authorities have moved swiftly and aggressively to contain independent reporting about it by harassing, detaining and censoring journalists and social media users.
24 Mar, 2020 19 correspondents for Iranian state TV get COVID-19 Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) confirmed Monday that 19 of its correspondents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Before my colleagues could not get to ...
