A cropped version of a photo which went viral on social media in Iran shows the marriage of a 9-year old girl with a young man in his 20s. (Video grab) March 5, 2022 A teenage girl who was a victim of child marriage set herself on fire in southeastern Iran due to [...]
A man holds a smartphone connected to a Wifi network without internet access at an office in the Iranian capital Tehran on Nov 17, 2019. (AFP) March 4, 2022 A fire in a government data center caused internet disruption for many users in Iran on Friday, an official said on Twitter. Mahdi Salem, [...]
Iranian police stand guard during a protest gathering in Tehran on July 11, 2009. (Reuters) March 4, 2022 While negotiators in Vienna discuss the final details of a nuclear agreement, politicians and pundits in Tehran are still not sure whether there will be a deal. An ultraconservative lawmaker even insisted on Thursday that [...]
Mohammad Najafi was sentenced to another two years in prison for “spreading lies” in connection with an open letter he wrote to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (Supplied) March 4, 2022 The Center for Human Rights in Iran and Netherlands-based NGO Lawyers for Lawyers have issued a joint call for the immediate release of Iranian human [...]
Female prison inmates in Iran can keep their children with them until the age of two. (Supplied) By Samaneh Ghadarkhan March 4, 2022 “Traces of cigarette burns can be clearly observed on the hands, the feet and the genitals of the eight-year-old girl. They were inflicted by her mother when she noticed the [...]
A computer engineer checks equipment at an internet service provider in Tehran, February 15, 2017. (Supplied) March 4, 2022 Despite widespread censorship, a report by the Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA says the internet penetration rate has surpassed 122 percent in the country. The agency said on Thursday that according to the latest [...]
Hossein Ronaghi is an Iranian blogger and internet freedom activist. (Supplied) March 3, 2022 Iranian authorities have released on bail an activist who was jailed for criticizing proposed legislation to further police Iran’s already-censored Internet, his family said. Hossein Ronaghi, a blogger and free-speech activist, disappeared on Feb. 23 after criticizing the “Users [...]
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a ceremony to mark the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran. Feb 10, 2022. (Reuters) March 3, 2022 Media outlets in Tehran gave low grades to President Ebrahim Raisi at the end of his three months in office and now they are scrutinizing his [...]
Director General of IAEA Rafael Grossi addresses the media during a news conference the International Center in Vienna, June 7, 2021. (AP) March 2, 2022 The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that it would “never abandon” its attempts to get Iran to clarify the previous presence of nuclear material at [...]
Students sit at their classroom after the opening ceremony of the Hashtroudi school in Tehran, Iran on Sept. 5, 2020. (AP) By Behnam Gholipour March 2, 2022 The latest issue of Iranian quarterly Education featured a revealing study on Iranian high school students’ plans on completing their studies in two highly distinct parts of Iran. [...]
