Full Report Available on gamaan.org “Results reveal dramatic changes in Iranian religiosity, with an increase in secularization and a diversity of faiths and beliefs. Compared with Iran’s 99.5% census figure we found that only 40% identified as Muslim” Which of the following is closer to your beliefs and faith? The majority of the population, 72%, […]
Instagram subcontracts it content moderation to Telus International. Telus International is a Canadian company and its Persian-language moderators are based in Germany. Many Iranian bloggers and news outlets have complained that some of their content is being deleted or their account has been limited going all the way back to May 2022. 1500tasvir reported in […]
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – also referred to as Sepah from its name in Persian (Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelâb-e Eslâmī, literally ‘Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution’) – is a parallel military force tasked with defending the regime against internal and external threats. In practice, it is the primary tool that the Islamic Republic regime […]
Hossein Ronaghi is an Iranian blogger,and human rights activist who was imprisonedin 2009 for his role in the post-election proteststhat erupted in Iran. He was arrested on December 13, 2009,for providing VPN proxies that allowedjournalists and political activists to circumventthe government’s website bans following the presidentialelections. He was also charged with insulting theleadership for his […]
COUNCIL: The highest government body that dealswith the cyberspace is a newly-establishedorganization named the High Council ofCyberspace (shoray-e aali-e fazaye majazi). In March of 2012 this new structure wasset up on the orders of Ayatollah Khameneiwith the mission of instituting high-levelpolicies on cyberspace. After the foundation of the high council ofcyberspace, all other Iranian organizationsin […]
BIO Toomaj is an Iranian hip hop artist mostly known for his protest songs concerning Iran’s societal issues and the policies of the Islamic republic. His well-known for his song mouse hole “Soroukhe Mooshe”. Toomaj was initial arrested on Sep 12,2021 for charges of ‘propaganda against the regime’ and ‘insulting the supreme leadership. He was […]
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) claims to be a non-profit, civil society NGO based in Washington, D.C. NIAC was founded in 2002 by Trita Parsi, Babak Talebi, and Farzin Illich to promote Iranian-American civic participation. Law suit In 2007, Arizona-based Iranian American journalist Hassan Daioleslam that ran iranianlobby.com began publicly asserting that NIAC was lobbying on […]
This report is based on the poor conditions that have been reported by some women that have been released from the Ministry of Intelligence division (209) in Evin Prison. The sanitary conditions are extremely dirty and infectious. Not only do they not clean, they also do not provide cleaning material despite repeated requests. This has […]
Originally published on Instagram on November 25th, 2022 MEK was founded on 5 September 1965 by leftist Iranian students affiliated with the Freedom Movement of Iran to oppose the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This controversial Iranian resistance group was initially a blend of Marxism, feminism and Islamism. It was once listed as a foreign […]