The Deputy Commander of Iran’s border police reports that in the past year, on average, his forces have had to handle at least one armed conflict per day in the country’s border regions. In conversation with the Mehr News Agency, Ahmad Geravand said the conflicts have led to the death of several border officials […]
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Iranian Jewish Community Leader Dies
The former chief rabbi of Iran’s tiny Jewish community has died. Yousef Hamadani Cohen was said to have been 98 years old. Iranian reports said he had been ill for several years. He was buried on Sunday in Tehran. Cohen was the spiritual leader of Iran’s Jews from around 1994 to 2007 and remained […]
Second captive border guard could be targeted
The Khabar television network reported on Thursday March 27 that Jeysh-ol-Adl has issued another threat. The Sunni militant group that abducted five Iranian border officials last February and killed one of them last Sunday has now announced that it will kill another Iranian hostage in five days it its demands are not met. The […]
Iran’s Human Rights Showing Little Progress, UN Votes to Renew Special Mandate
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted 21 to 9 to renew the mandate of Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed, a welcome development for human rights in Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The vote signals continued concern in the international community that the human rights situation has not improved […]
Amnesty International: Small number of countries trigger global spike in executions
Iran and Iraq caused a sharp global spike in the number of executions carried out in 2013, bucking the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty, Amnesty International found in its annual review of the death penalty worldwide. Alarming levels of executions in an isolated group of countries in 2013 – mainly the […]
Women can play larger role in Iranian economy
Structural reforms to facilitate entrepreneurship by Iranian women would be a boost for Iran’s economic growth. Iran is facing a socioeconomic issue in women’s unemployment. According to an article published in the March 2014 issue of Iran Economics, only 13% of the workforce consists of women and the latest official statistics for women’s unemployment […]
Culture minister deflects blame for print censorship
Ali Jannati, the Minister of Culture and Guidance, says the government is not responsible for bans on books and newspapers. ISNA reports that Jannati said the Press Supervisory Board is a seven-member committee including representatives from the judiciary, Parliament, seminaries and the High Council of the Cultural Revolution, and the Ministry of Culture has […]
Landmine Explosion in Non-Border Area Claims Another Life in Iran
The explosion of a landmine in the Shahdad desert of Kerman Province has left one man dead and three others critically injured. This is the second incident in less than three months of a landmine explosion in a non-border area located in Iran’s Lut Desert, at least 300 kilometers from the closest border with […]
Hundreds of Lawyers Advocate on Behlaf of Imprisoned Dervish Lawyers
In two separate letters addressed to Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadegh Larijani, hundreds of Iranian lawyers have asked him for his immediate review of the judicial violations in the cases of four imprisoned Dervish lawyers. According to Majzooban-e Noor website, in one of the letters, 177 lawyers asked Larijani to review Judge Salavati’s […]
Dervish Cleric Was Questioned in Special Court for Clerics
Clergy Mr. Mohammad Nouri who is affiliated with the largest Mystical order in Iran, The Nematollahi Sultan Ali Shahi Gonabadi Order was questioned by Mazandaran’s Special Court for Clerics. He was granted bail until the start of his trial.According to a report by Majzooban Noor, Gonabadi Dervish, Mr. Nouri was summoned to the Special […]