More than 100 protesters voicing support for Azerbaijan and anger over Iran’s backing of Armenia have been arrested in Iran. As military clashes between the Republic of... Read more
Navid Afkari, a wrestler from Shiraz arrested during protests in August 2018, has been executed in Iran. Akari was handed down two death sentences: one for the alleged m... Read more
On June 7, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against Iran’s largest petrochemical holding group for providing financial support to an... Read more
U.S. Sanctions Iraq-Based Company Affiliated With IRGC The United States has sanctioned an Iraqi company that it said had helped Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)... Read more
Wives of high-ranking IRGC generals accused of financial corruption Wives of General Qasem Soleimani and General Ali Jafari under scrutiny Case involves the transferring of company ownership... Read more
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iranian Petrochemicals Company Linked to IRGC The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran that target the country’s petrochemical industry due to its ties with... Read more
Iran’s IRGC says it monitors all social networks in country – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is monitoring all social networks in the country, Mostafa Alizadeh, a... Read more
Iran Upholds Death Sentence for Photographer Who Insulted Prophet on Facebook – An Iranian photographer and blogger has seen his death sentence upheld by the country’s Supreme Co... Read more
How Iran Jails Journalists and Human Rights Lawyers – Among the endangered species in Iran these days are journalists–and the lawyers who defend them. Only last month two female journa... Read more
Reyhaneh Jabbari could escape execution? – An Iranian woman facing a death sentence in a murder case that some have labeled a miscarriage of justice may be spared the gallows, Iranian... Read more
