Tag: Surgery

The Eyes Have It: Iran’s Health Minister Performs Surgery On Opposition Figures

  Iran’s health minister has performed eye surgery on an opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011, the government critic’s son told RFE/RL. Mohammad Taghi Karrubi, the London-based son of reformist cleric Mehdi Karrubi, said his father underwent a cataract operation this week in Tehran performed by Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh […]

The Current Condition of Hamidreza Moradi in Hospital: Serious Risks Involved with His Surgery

  Doctors treating Hamid-Reza Moradi Sarvestani, imprisoned administrator of Majzooban Noor website, said he is facing a serious risks of vascular surgery (surgery on veins and arteries).According to Majzooban Noor, doctors arranged for Hamid-Reza Moradi Sarvestani, imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish and administrator of Majzooban Noor website who has been admitted to Shohada Hospital since Aban 15/ […]

Imprisoned Blogger Needs Open Heart Surgery

  ‘If authorities don’t grant my father furlough for his open heart surgery, they will have to be accountable for whatever happens to him,” Mitra Pourshajari, the daughter of imprisoned blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Physicians at Ghezel Hessar Prison have determined that imprisoned blogger Mohammad Reza […]