June 13, 2018 The arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, is an outrageous attack on a brave and prolific human rights defender, Amnesty International said today. Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested at her home in Tehran this morning and transferred to the prosecutor’s office of Evin prison, according to her husband, Reza…
the weekly standard | JENNA LIFHITS | June 5, 2018 Under secretary Sigal Mandelker warns companies about the risks of dealing with the Islamic Republic. A top Treasury official issued a stark warning to companies the world over on Tuesday about the risks of doing business with Iran, describing the Islamic Republic as a regime…
RAMESH SEPEHRRAD | MAY 21, 2018 On December 28, 2017, a local protest over fast-rising prices of basic food staples in the northeastern holy city of Mashad quickly turned into a massive uprising, with people shouting, “Down with the dictator”. In a matter of hours, the protest spread to nearby towns like wildfire in a…
By Radio Liberty | April 12, 2018 In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.” Iran ranks second in the world after China in terms of executions and has “carried out 84% of…
By Ellen Nakashima March 26, 2018 Last week the U.S. government announced indictments and sanctions against an Iranian hacker network involved in one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns the United States has ever prosecuted. The nine Iranians named all were affiliated with the Mabna Institute, a private Iran-based company that the government alleges hacks on behalf…
