14 Women Activists to Be Prosecuted for Demanding Supreme Leader’s Resignation
The prosecution of 14 women who signed a statement demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin on ...
Tag : Ali Khamenei
December 3, 2018
Jane Goodall Among 132 Conservationists Calling for Jailed Colleagues to Receive Fair Trial in Iran
Dozens of conservation practitioners and scholars, including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, have issued an impassioned defense of ...
November 7, 2018
Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial
Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by ...
July 31, 2018
Conflicting Reports on Iranian Opposition Leaders’ Freedom From House Arrest
A member of Iran’s Parliament has denied reports that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has ruled to end the seven-year-long house arrests of ...
March 10, 2018
Woman Who Removed Headscarf in Public Sentenced to Prison as Supreme Leader Tries to Diminish Hijab Protests
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has described recent demonstrations in Iran against the country’s compulsory hijab rule as “small ...
January 12, 2018
Iran’s Supreme Leader Condemns Protests as “Devilish Fireworks”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned the country’s recent nationwide protests as “devilish fireworks” organized by the United States, Israel, regional Arab states and Iranian counter-revolutionaries. “Their intention was to stir things up ...
July 5, 2017
Iran’s Supreme Leader Comes to Judiciary’s Defense After Rouhani Criticizes Problematic Arrests
Iran’s supreme leader is continuing his public criticism of newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, this time accusing him ...
June 22, 2017
Iranian Nobel Laureate Blasts Khamenei’s “Fire at Will” Policy Against Domestic Opponents
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that his supporters should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is an established policy of the ...
February 17, 2017
Iran’s Supreme Leader Cements Hardline Position by Rejecting Offer of National Reconciliation
Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year ...
July 23, 2016
Cartoon 149: Worthless Versus Valuable “Likes”
At a June 23, 2016 public meeting with poets chosen and invited by his administration, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: "I have heard that some publish their poetry on the Internet. For example, ...
June 21, 2016
Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights
ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his ...
June 6, 2016
Officials Seek to Confront Iran’s Increasingly Popular “White Marriages”
The increasing popularity of Iranian couples living together without getting officially married has alarmed officials of the Islamic Republic who question the morality of the ...
February 26, 2016
Cartoon 140: Hardliners Only!
"The enemies of our revolution introduced the notion of 'hardliner' and 'moderate' from the first day...They used to think that the most hardliner of all ...
November 30, 2015
Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe kidney stones, a source told the ...
October 19, 2015
Kurdish Filmmaker’s Six-Year Prison Sentence and 223 Lashes Illegal, Says Lawyer
Keywan Karimi The harsh judgment against filmmaker Keywan Karimi for “insulting the sacred” and “illegitimate relations” is baseless and ...
October 14, 2015
Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions October 14, 2015—A Tehran ...
September 24, 2015
Mother of Imprisoned Physicist Writes Letter to Khamenei Pleading for His Freedom
Omid Kokabee. The mother of Omid Kokabee, a physicist imprisoned in Iran since January 2011, has written a letter to the ...
September 22, 2015
Message to Rouhani: Rights Crisis in Iran Must Finally Be Addressed
Hassan Rouhani addresses the UN General Assembly in New ...
May 23, 2015
Cartoon 115: Ali Khamenei at the Tehran International Book Fair
During a visit to the Tehran International Book Fair, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, asked a publisher whether ...
September 14, 2011
Talabani Intervened for Hikers’ Release, While Judiciary Denies the News
The Iranian Judiciary has simultaneously announced that “the two US citizens accused of espionage have not been released and their lawyer’s request for bail orders and their release is under consideration.” According to Mehr News Agency, quoting the Iranian Judiciary’s Public Relations and Protocol Office, ...