In his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati blamed women for opposing polygamy and standing in the way of their husbands who wish to get a second wife. Hojat-ol-Islam Mohsen Ghara’ati is the head of the Center for the Promotion of Prayers and a Muslim scholar teaching and […]
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Two Gonabadi Dervishes were fired from their jobs
Two managers of Zamiad vehicle manufacturing company were fired from their jobs because of their belief in Dervishism.
Photos: Mud bathing in Lake Urmia – Iran
Lake Urmia (a Syriac name meaning city of water), is the third largest salt lake on earth located in northwestern Iran.
Iran’s Mourning Mothers of Park Laleh, Return to the Park
We ask all International Human Rights NGO’s, where in Mr. Ahmed Shaheed’s report, is the story of all the martyrs of the last 33 years and the mistreatment and degradation their mothers and supporters were subjected to?
Student lashed for insulting Ahmadinejad released from prison
Amin Niayifar, high-achieving Iranian student lashed by the Iranian authorities The above photo of Amin Niayifar was taken yesterday, after he was released from Evin for finishing his 6-month prison sentence.
Authorities step up pressure on jailed lawyer
Jailed Iranian lawyer Javid Houtan Kian is being subjected to further pressure by being moved to the methadone section of Tabriz Prison, the Human Rights Activists News Agency reports.
War veteran given 5-year prison sentence, lashes, fine
Judge Salavati handed down a 5-year prison sentence, $40,000 fine and 30 lashes.
Mohammad Ali Sadee met with his family
The Gonabadi Dervish , Mr.Mohammad Ali Sadee , who was shot and injured by security forces in entrance of Kavar town , after more than 50 days imprisonment , could meet with his family last week in Shiraz AdelAbad prison .
Single-gender hospitals coming to Iranian provinces
Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi has declared that every Iranian province must establish at least one single-gender hospital.
186 children victims of Syrian revolution so far
Asharq Alawsat – Recent statistics obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat confirm that 186 children and 98 women have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution on 15 March. The youngest Syrian child killed during the revolution was just 2 months old, whilst the eldest was 18 years old.