Iran: Death sentence for Facebook posts

(New York) – Iran’s judiciary should vacate the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who faces imminent execution for Facebook posts linked to his account. On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling ...

Iran murders 15 drug offenders

Iran hanged 21 prisoners on March 4th — 15 for drug offenses, 6 for alleged hostility to God. The names of the six Sunni Kurds hanged for political reasons were released. The names of the drug offenders ...

Iran executes gay teenager in violation of international law

Iran’s regime executed a gay adolescent in July – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic in 2016 – Amnesty International reported this week. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in ...

France adheres to its commitments to Iran

French junior Minister for Transport, Marine Affairs and Fisheries Alain Vidalies has emphasized that his country honors all its commitments to Iran. “We would definitely fulfill our commitments to Iran especially in view of the war atmosphere ...

Funding Hezbollah reveals Iran’s interests

Evidence has come to light of unfrozen Iranian funds going to terrorist organizations. In a candid address on June 24, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah made a number of admissions about his organization’s funding. The comments came after ...

Russia and Iran on track for railway co-operation

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (Exiar) and the Railways of Islamic Republic of Iran (Rai) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to reinforce co-operation and support for trade between Russia and Iran. ...

Iran executes every man in an Iranian village

Every man in an Iranian village has been executed for drugs offences, a human rights group has claimed. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the country’s vice president for women and family affairs, claimed that men from Sistan and Baluchestan had ...

State Department: Iran is ‘the leading sponsor of terrorism’

Even after nuclear agreement, U.S. report says Iran supplies money, training, and weapons to terrorist organizations worldwide • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran will not cooperate with U.S. to solve regional crisis, as [our] aims are 180 degrees ...

Iran Regime hangs 21 people

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that 21 people have been hanged in Iran since Monday, one of which was in public. In the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, on Tuesday ...

Iranian, French oil institutes to sign MOU

The French Institute of Petroleum titled Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP) is slated to pen an MOU with Iranian Research Institute of Petroleum Industry on oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical cooperation, the Shana news agency reported on ...