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Tag : supreme leader

May 17, 2022

Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage

May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured domestic media not to cover the protests, ...

August 17, 2021

Lawyers, Activists Arrested as they Attempt to Sue State for Failed COVID Response

Six Arbitrarily Detained as State Tries to Block Attempt to Seek Justice August 17, 2021—The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil rights activists in Tehran as they were preparing to file a lawsuit against state officials ...

January 22, 2021

Iran Touts Unverified Domestic Vaccines, Ignores International Condemnation of Non-Scientific Policy

When the World Health Organization approved vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries began planning for mass immunizations. Yet the Iranian supreme leader’s televised speech on January 8--where he announced that “importing American and English vaccines into the country ...

January 20, 2021

Iranian Rights Groups Call on Khamenei to Allow Purchase of U.S. and UK COVID-19 Vaccines

Iran Should Base COVID-19 Vaccine Decisions on Science January 20, 2021 -- In light of the statement by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 8, 2021, that the Islamic Republic will not import any COVID-19 vaccines ...

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 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in August 2018 to try individuals accused of economic ...

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 political opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir ...

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 and insignificant,” which raises the question of why people are being ...

January 31, 2018

Iranians Denounce Acquittal of Quran Reciter Accused of Sexual Abuse

Prominent Quran reciter Saeed Tousi shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Reformist MP Releases Info Linking Acquittal to Supreme Leader’s Office Iranians have widely condemned the acquittal of well-known Quran ...

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 in ...

December 1, 2017

Spokesman Berates Former President Ahmadinejad After He Accuses Judiciary of Corruption

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary has publicly spoken out against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the former president accused the judiciary of corruption in a public speech. At a press conference on November 28, 2017, ...

March 3, 2017

Hardliners Float Name of Major Human Rights Violator for Iran’s Next Supreme Leader

For the time being, a powerful hardline cleric implicated in major human rights violations, Ebrahim Raisi, has ruled out his candidacy in Iran’s May 2016 presidential election. He remains, however, as a favorite ...

December 11, 2015

Commentary: Khamenei’s New Letter to Western Youth is Case Study in Hypocrisy

Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has written a letter addressed to youths in Western countries and, as he did in an earlier similar letter, he scolded the West on a number of issues of which ...

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