Iranian Republic

U.S. BASED IRANIAN ACTIVISTS FACE GOVERNMENT-LED THREATS

Women’s rights advocate and PEN America Member Masih Alinejad, based in New York, and other leading activists based in the U.S. who are speaking out on behalf of women’s rights in Iran have faced an ongoing campaign of retaliation by the Iranian government. This includes a recent series of threats to their safety and that of their families, apparently from individuals who are linked to or within the Iranian government. PEN America regards these threats against writers and activists living in the U.S. as a contemptible assault on freedom of expression and on these individuals’ right to live free from fear.

Interview with Mr. Koroush Parsa

Currently, the Islamic republic and Iranian people are primarily dealing with the adverse effects of the corona pandemic. The regime and people has been dealing with the effects of sanctions on one hand and as such as resources are getting extremely limited, the public has zoomed in on the corruption and combined effect is continuous delegitimization of the Islamic Republic.

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Video: The Queen @ the Coup in Iran

Video: The Queen @ the Coup in Iran

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GENDER POLITICS IN IRAN AND THE LAST FORTY YEARS: ELEVEN STORIES

2019 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Yet the turbulent events of late 2019 and early 2020 are stark reminders that Iranians continue to resist for their liberation. These events once again confirmed that the history, legacy, and freedom dreams of the 1979 Revolution are still bitterly contested, forty years later. Since the very beginning of that uprising, the status of gender politics and its relationship to the revolutionary project has been a site of debate and contestation both among revolutionary actors and outside commentators. Unlike previous journal special issues marking anniversary moments of the Iranian Revolution, this collection of essays, art, and creative writing emerged over the course of conversations in 2019 that centered projects of gender justice, women’s leadership in popular struggles, and other forms of feminist political work which are a major force of societal transformation in Iran.

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A New documentary on the 1953 Coup

On June 14, 2020 the British Channel Four broadcast a documentary about the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossaddeq entitled “The Queen and the Coup.”

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A tale of two Americas, a tale of two Irans

As an activist of Iranian heritage living in Washington DC, it has been interesting to observe the wave of protests across the United States through the lens of someone who has documented mass protests in Iran and campaigned for Iranian human rights for over a decade.

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Three Iranian Writers face imprisonment

This conversation was organised by PEN Sydney, on behalf of the Australian PEN Centres in Melbourne and Perth. The discussion is between PEN Sydney president, Mark Isaacs, and three members of the Iranian Writers’ Association (IWA) who are facing immediate imprisonment in Iran. The IWA played no role in facilitating this discussion.

Maryam Shojaei, trailblazer for women in Iran to watch men's soccer, earns Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award

Maryam Shojaei, who mounted a campaign -- first anonymously and later publicly -- that led to Iran allowing women to attend men's soccer matches, is being honored with the Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award, ESPN announced Tuesday.

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Golriz Ghahraman: 'I feel such sorrow when I imagine my parents' fate'

The Iranian-born New Zealand MP describes a ‘central heartbreak’ of being a migrant child in this exclusive extract from her book Know Your Place

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HRC 40: Joint Civil Society Letter in Support of Iran Resolution

We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, urge your government to support resolution A/HRC/40/L.15 renewing the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to be tabled during the 40th session of the Human Rights Council.