Iran Focus
London, 19 Aug – In response to the 1988 audio file that has been recently released on the website of the late Hossein-Ali Montazeri, who was at one time the designated heir to the Iranian Supreme Leader, the first Chancellor of the University of Tehran after the 1979 revolution has publicly announced that the number of victims, reported by the Iranian officials, is far from the actual figure.
Iran Focus
London, 19 Aug – Iranian authorities arrested a group of Iranian Christians at a house-church in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, last week.
Iran Focus
London, 18 Aug – More than 4,400 clothes shops were shut down in 2015 for violating the strict morality code in Iran, according to a leading official in the State Security Forces.
Hossein Sajedi-Nia, Commander of the State Security Forces said that they offered “indecent apparel violating public morality”.
Iran Focus
Washington, 18 Aug – A United States Congressman has written an op-ed for Medium discussing the fate of Iranian exiles in Iraq.
Ted Poe, a Texan Congressman, states that the political exiles are “unarmed, innocent people who have been forced to flee their homes because of their opposition to the tyrannical theocratic regime in Tehran”.
Iran Focus
London, 17 Aug – Iranian officials arrested over 60 young people for attending a mixed-gender party this past weekend.
According to regime officials, the youngsters had been partying and the women had violated the Regime’s dress code. Their main suspect was only identified as Fariborz G, who organised the event on social media.
Iran Focus
London, 17 Aug – An audio tape was released last week which revealed the Iranian Regime’s involvement in the 1988 massacre which killed over 30,000 political prisoners.
London, 17 Aug – An Iranian Resistance group has called on international human rights bodies to launch an inquiry into the torture of Sunni political prisoners in Iran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran released a statement asking the UN Human Rights Council, which is meeting next month in Geneva, to launch an inquiry into the torture of the Sunni political prisoners before their mass execution on August 2.
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
Iran is a hot commodity. Whether it is being sold as a misunderstood land of mystery, or eyed as a potential business or investment opportunity, it is difficult to find a narrative which does not reduce the country to a means to a particular end. Historically, this included the vilification of Iran as an anti-western wasteland, divorced from historical context, geopolitical significance and diversity.
Iran Focus
London, 15 Aug – Despite its claims of moderation, the government of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been taking increasing measures to limit women’s rights for freedom in the recent years. One of the ways the Iranian government is clamping down on women’s freedom is by limiting and dictating what they can wear. Women across Iran are now forced to wear the Chador – full black cover – in order to receive various public services, reports the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
London, 14 Aug – There is international expectation that the next U.S. president will adopt a new policy regarding Iran which recognizes the Iranian people’s demand for democratic change, argues Shahriar Kia, a press spokesman for members of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK).
