'Treating us like garbage': New sanctions announced as many Iranian Americans feel fed up with Trump
Sat 10 Oct 2020Jason Nazmiyal, a prominent Persian carpet dealer based in New York, is used to America's red tape when it comes to Iran.
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How Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life
Sun 27 Sep 2020When Shohreh Bayat, one of the world’s top chess referees, let her hijab slip during a match earlier this year she had no idea she may never return home to Iran again. Not long after the seemingly innocuous pictures of her loose hair had circulated in Iran, where headscarves are strictly mandated by the ruling ayatollahs, she was receiving threats to her life.
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Iran: Horrifying plan to amputate fingers of four men convicted of robbery must be stopped
Fri 25 Sep 2020The international community must do everything in its power to stop Iranian authorities from amputating the fingers of four men convicted of robbery following forced “confessions” and grossly unfair trials, said Amnesty International today.
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Message from Kweku Mandela - Nelson Mandela's grandson - to Nasrin Sotoudeh
Thu 17 Sep 2020Four months after Nasrin was released from her first three-year prison sentence in Evin, Nelson Mandela died in December 2013.
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IOC STATEMENT ON THE EXECUTION OF WRESTLER NAVID AFKARI IN IRAN
Sun 13 Sep 2020The execution of wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran is very sad news. The IOC is shocked by this announcement today.
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Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Sat 12 Sep 2020Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline.
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Lessons From Three Years in an Iranian Prison
Thu 03 Sep 2020In August 2016, shortly after I was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, one of my interrogators asked me what I thought of the antagonism between Iran and the United States. I told him frankly that like many Americans, I did not believe that Iran and the United States should be enemies. I said that I thought President Barack Obama should visit Tehran and turn a new page in the relationship, just as President Richard Nixon had done by going to Beijing in 1972. The interrogator sneered. The U.S. president would never be welcome in his country, he told me.
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Iran’s “#MeToo” moment
Fri 28 Aug 2020The ripple effects of the 2017 “#MeToo” movement shook Iranian social media this week as rape allegations were levelled against some of the country’s most prominent figures. The movement, which has led to the arrest of at least one alleged rapist so far, has triggered a broader conversation around sexual violence and harassment — an unspoken topic in Islamic Iran.
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Iranian women are staging an offensive against sexual abuse. It’s long overdue.
Thu 27 Aug 2020The accused range from Revolutionary Guard commanders to renowned artists and ordinary citizens —implying a deep and systemic crisis of moral legitimacy at the heart of the regime not unlike the one recently faced by the Catholic Church: The theocracy that has touted itself as the guardian of good conduct and high virtue proves to have done no better, and possibly worse, than the Western societies it has so scathingly criticized.
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IRAN : UN special rapporteur urged to visit Iranian prisons holding journalists
Sat 22 Aug 2020Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran to inspect the country’s prisons as soon as possible, now that the revelation of a cover-up of coronavirus deaths in Iran has increased concern about the degree to which prisoners of conscience, including journalists, are exposed to the virus in its over-crowded jails. The BBC’s Persian service revealed on 3 August that leaked Iranian government data showed that the real death toll from Covid-19 in Iran was nearly 42,000 – three times the figure of 14,400 that the Iranian health ministry gave on 20 July.
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