‘Abulfazl Amir Ataee was only 16 years old when he was shot with a tear gas cansiter by the IRGC from a clost distance during the nationwide protests in September 2022 in Shahrrei.The left side of his skull was completely crackedand removed a series of nerve vessels were drained.He is completely paralyzed & is only […]
Hamed Esmaeilioun announced in a social medic message that he has resigned from the “Solidarity Council for Democracy and Freedom in Iran” and emphasized that he will continue to cooperate with the forces committed to democracy by focusing on the efforts to overthrow the Islamic Republic.His letter“A report to the peopleI was in the litigation […]
Reza Pahlavi has been in Israel to deliver a message of friendship from the Iranian people, engage Israeli water experts on ways to address the regime’s abuse of Iran’s natural resources and pay respects to the victims of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah.He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, and paid […]
An Iranian court has sentenced a medical couple to a total of 20 years in prison in connection to the alleged killing of a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests, activists say. The court in Karaj, near Tehran, sentenced Dr. Hamid Ghareh Hasanlou, a radiologist, to 15 years, while his wife Farzaneh, a […]
In late September, Shervin Hajipour sat down at his piano in his apartment in Iran. Protests had raged across the country for more than a week after the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for how she wore her headscarf. But people were angry about so much more. On Sept. 28, Shervin posted a song that, […]
Chemical attacks on Iranian students is being cataloged by FDD on fdd.org/chemicalattacks The attacks began in November 2022, but it was only in March 2023 that the poisonings came to dominate the Iranian national psyche as the number of attacks increased and their geographical distribution spread. One hundred and four attacks occurred on March 6 […]
In the summer of 2020, Niloufar Bahadorifar, an expatriate Iranian in California, received a message from someone in her home country asking her to send money to the PayPal account of a person in Manhattan. Ms. Bahadorifar passed along $670 and forwarded proof of the transaction to Iran.The payment may have seemed unremarkable, but federal […]
Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were transferred to hospital in the north-western city of Tabriz, an official said, after the latest in a wave of poisoning attacks that have sickened thousands of pupils across the country over more than four months.The head of the emergency service in West Azerbaijan province said the girls were treated after suffering […]
According to a relative of the Rezaei family, police forces shot at Azad Rezaei who was inside his Peugeot 405. He was hit by the forces from behind and died instantly. Azad, who was the driver of this car, was traveling in the city with his three other friends, and the police claimed that they […]
Prominent Iranian opposition figures have announced the formation of the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy in Iran (ADFI). In a statement on their website, they explain: Alliance for Democracy and Freedom in Iran (ADFI) is an alliance of individuals, organizations, political parties and other entities who are committed to the “Mahsa” Charter as a framework for cooperation. The […]