Tribute to Mahsa Amini

Iran Is Facing A Severe Shortage of Teachers

Oct 12 2023

Confirming the shortage of teachers in Iran, the country’s Minister of Education has stated that there is a deficit of nearly 200,000 teachers. Speaking to ...

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Iranian Underground Rappers Arrested For ‘Insulting Sacred Values’

Oct 10 2023

One hundred Iranian rappers have been arrested on charges of "sacrilege" after producing and releasing a video deemed offense to Islamic culture. Akbar Qasemi, the ...

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Who are Iran’s morality police?

Oct 09 2023

Until recently, most people outside of Iran had never heard of the country’s morality police, let alone followed their wider role in the region. But ...

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International Community Unites to Address Iran’s Human Rights Crisis

Oct 09 2023

On October 5, coinciding with the fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, an important conference was held to address the ...

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2023 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Narges Mohammadi, women’s rights activist jailed in Iran

Oct 06 2023

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The former vice president of the Defenders of Human ...

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Iran’s Regime Deployed Retired IRGC Officers to Suppress Dissent

Oct 06 2023

In a recent meeting with retired members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, the Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, openly acknowledged their involvement ...

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Baha’i Citizen Ahmad Naeimi Arrested in Yazd

Oct 06 2023

On October 5, 2023, Ministry of Intelligence agents apprehended Baha’i citizen Ahmad Naeimi (Naeemi) in Yazd and subsequently transported him to a detention facility. According ...

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Iran Pressuring Family To Cover-Up Role Of Hijab Police In Girl’s Coma

Oct 05 2023

Authorities have pressured a 16-year-old girl’s family and friends to deny the role of hijab patrols in an incident Sunday that led to her falling ...

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Another Mahsa Amini? Assault of a teen girl Amrita Gravand from Iran’s morality police

Oct 04 2023

A 16-year-old girl in Iran’s capital Tehran is in a coma after being allegedly assaulted by the country’s controversial “morality police”. The incident has brought ...

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Professors Resign on the Anniversary of Police Raid on Sharif University

Oct 04 2023

Iranian media reported a collective resignation of professors at Sharif University of Technology on the eve of the anniversary of the attack by security forces ...

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Hundreds Of Iranian Protesters Detained After Marking Anniversary Of Bloody Crackdown

Oct 04 2023

Iranian security forces have detained hundreds of people as protesters in the country’s southeast marked the first anniversary of the killing of scores of demonstrators ...

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Mohammad Abedini of Tehran has been charged with conspiring to export sophisticated electronic components in violation of U.S. export control and sanctions laws and is also charged with supplying tech that resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service in Jordan. He was arrested in Malpensa, Italy. Cecilia Sala (born 26 July 1995) is an Italian journalist, who specializes in political and war journalism, both as author and war correspondent. She just happened to be there at the wrong time. She was arrested for free speech in Tehran and held in Evin prison in response to the arrest in Malpensa. What do you think will happen next?