By Jubin Katiraie
One of the controversial items announced this week by President Hassan Rouhani as part of Iran’s 2020 budget is the funds set aside for so-called cultural institutions affiliated with the regime.
By Jubin Katiraie
More than a month has passed since the outbreak of a major flu epidemic in Iran. More than 80 people have been killed in the past month due to a lack of flu medicine known as Tamiflu. A batch of the vital drug came into the country in the last week, albeit after the death of some people.
By Pooya Stone
On Monday, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the Iranian government for its crackdown on peaceful protests and support the rights of the Iranian people to freedom of expression.
By Jubin Katiraie
An Iranian man has pled guilty in Los Angeles to a federal conspiracy charge for sending prohibited machinery to Iran in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and US sanctions imposed on the nation.
By Pooya Stone
The Iranian parliament is expected to decide on next year's budget. However, after the gas price hikes, it became clear that neither the branches' heads of the regime nor the regime's supreme leader cared about the parliament in crucial political-economic decision-making.
By Pooya Stone
Soheila Hijab Bid Sarakhsi is a lawyer and human rights activist and a political woman imprisoned in Evin prison.
By Jubin Katiraie
The Iran Human Rights Monitor has released its monthly report into the human rights situation in Iran and this month it focused, understandably, on the nationwide uprising that sprung up on November 15 and the subsequent crackdown by the Iranian authorities.
By Pooya Stone
The European Union’s High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles has urged the Iranian authorities to end its crackdown on peaceful Iranian protesters in a statement on behalf of the EU.
By Jubin Katiraie
Ping-Pong diplomacy is a term coined in the 1970s for the hidden US-Chinese dialogue. In the 1970s, relations between the two countries were at a high level of tensions and had been frozen.
By Jubin Katiraie
After the Iran protests in November, numerous government officials from both factions have warned of ‘protests beyond the protests in November.’ The Iranian government forces are also taking action to confront a new round of protests.
By Jubin Katiraie
“Risk of recurrence of November riots in the coming months / The fuel of slum-dwellers on the fire of protests”, this is the title of an article written by the state-run website SNN (Student News Network), which is showing the concern of the Iranian government about the upcoming uprisings against the Iranian government.
By Pooya Stone
One after another, Iranian officials acknowledge that their security forces shot and killed innocent people during the bloody crackdown on recent protests.
By Pooya Stone
The ACHRS Amman Center for Human Rights Studies in Jordan, in consultation with the United Nations on 6 December, released a statement on its official website, titled “Statement of solidarity with the popular uprising of people, workers, and students in Iran”, condemning the crackdown on the Iran protests.
By Jubin Katiraie
United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker accused Iran on Friday of being involved in Thursday's rocket attack on the Balad military base in Iraq.
By Jubin Katiraie
With over 1,000 Iranian protesters reported dead at the hands of the state’s security apparatus in less than two weeks, another 4,000 wounded, and over 12,000 arrested and facing the death penalty, why is the nationwide uprising that has spread to 187 Iranian cities getting barely any coverage in European media?
By Jubin Katiraie
Less than a month has passed since gasoline prices in Iran were tripled. At the same time, the government started a parallel propaganda campaign in its media. That with gasoline rising and quotas, "the price of the rest of the commodities would not rise, and the government would deal with offenders [who raise prices]."
By Pooya Stone
Under the rule of dictators, whether monarchic or religious, the election was a means to portray the Iranian government as a democratic and normal state. The upcoming parliamentarian election scheduled in March is yet another publicity stunt by the Ayatollahs.
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