The following is a roundup of the human rights situation in Iran for the month of April 2021, based on information from activists and state media, collated by Iran News Update.
Iran’s state-run media has begun to acknowledge that the economic crisis there is solely down to the officials’ corruption and mismanagement. Even if they still tried to downplay the true scale of the problem, this just goes ...
Protests by people from all social classes, all employment sectors, and all age ranges are continuing to be seen across Iran, as the public are outraged by both the authorieties’ general failure to improve the lot of ...
Iran opened on Tuesday the door for candidacies for the upcoming presidential vote, amid differences between President Hassan Rouhani on one hand, and the Guardian Council on the other over the conditions for running for the elections.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter fired 30 warning shots at two armed Iranian fast-attack boats on Monday after they approached American warships at a high rate of speed while transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, according to ...
At least 24 Israelis hurt, one seriously; 23 Palestinians said killed, among them children; military says most were Hamas members or killed by errant Gazan rockets, not IDF strikes
Candidates began signing up on Tuesday for Iran's June 18 presidential polls, with the clerical establishment hoping for a high turnout in a vote seen as a referendum on the handling of the Islamic Republic’s political and ...
The Iranian government has begun signaling that it wants to start a new chapter with Saudi Arabia, expressing hope that the holy month of Ramadan could be the beginning of the end of insecurity and instability in ...
On Monday, 44-year-old Lebanese-American Racha Farhat pleaded guilty to “participating in a conspiracy to launder money as part of a decade-long scheme to ship electronics equipment to a [Hezbollah]-owned television station,” announced the United States Justice Department.
Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif spoke over the phone with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on late Monday to discuss latest developments in occupied Palestinian territories.
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