Renowned conservative cleric Mohsen Gharavian has called on the Iranian government July 9 to abolish compulsory hijab regulations for foreign tourists in the country’s free trade zones.
Tehran’s Prosecutor-General, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi says the legal cases against several suspects charged with financial corruption in the capital’s municipality have been delivered to the Military Prosecutor’s office.
In a letter to the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, more than fifty Iranian dissidents have urged him to impose sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) for its role in violation of human rights in the country.
People in the southern Iranian city of Borazjan held protests Sunday evening for a second day in row over lack of drinking water.
Thousands of residents of Borazjan, the center of Dashtestan County in Bushehr province, southern Iran, poured into the streets on Saturday, July 7, to protest “shortage” and “chaotic” distribution of water.
Up to fifty persons have been arrested in northwestern Iran, days ahead of the annual gathering at a historic fortress in Eastern Azarbaijan province, human rights activists report.
A guarantee for keeping Iran’s oil sales going is one of the conditions Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set in order to keep Iran in the nuclear deal with the West.
The brother of an Iranian Kurdish man on death row says the prison authorities have told the dissident that he would either be executed or killed behind bars.
Javid Rehman, a young British-Pakistani legal scholar has been appointed as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.
Iran's State Sharia Penal Authority (SSPA) says organized crime has taken place in government subsidized vehicle imports.
Amnesty International has urged Iranian authorities to transfer the imprisoned human rights activist Arash Sadeghi to a cancer treatment center.
UAE has placed nine Iranian individuals and entities on its list for supporting terrorism and transferring funds to the Iranian Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC).
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo’s pressure campaign to Isolate Tehran has gained momentum ahead of his scheduled visit to United Arab Emirates.
A group of Iran MPs have called upon the Intelligence Minister to lift the travel ban imposed on Iran’s most prominent Sunni clergyman.
Japanese media reported on July 3 that the country’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled his plan to visit Iran during this summer.
Iran’s aviation industry has received another severe blow. Following the footsteps of Boeing and Airbus, ATR also announced last week that it has decided to distance itself from Tehran.
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