This section is updated with news, updates, and articles that explore the Status of Minorities in Iran. Their life in Theocratic Iran has not been an easy ride.
This section has been set up separately to assist researchers and people who are interested in minorities as a page for direct access to such important topic.
Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi. (Mehr) October 7, 2021 The military adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned Wednesday that Iran would not accept “any bordering country” hosting "anti-Iran terrorist groups." “We warn that we will deal with counter-revolutionary groups anywhere on the borders around our country, where governments host them and provide [...]
People went out on the streets of Khuzestan to protest against water shortages and power cuts, despite the 50-degree heat. (Supplied) By Behnam Gholipour October 2, 2021 In mid-July 2021, mass protests over the water crisis in Khuzestan broke out in cities across the province and spread to other parts of Iran. Over the course of about [...]
16 Baha'i students have been denied the right to university education under the pretext of being disqualified. (Supplied) By Kian Sabeti October 1, 2021 It’s an annual occasion, a clear reminder of the cruel, targeted discrimination embedded in Iran’s education system. Each year, as Iranian students receive the results of their higher education entrance [...]
Over the last 10 days, Fashafuyeh Prison on the outskirts of Tehran has been the scene of fights between gangs of violent criminals. (Supplied) By Maryam Dehkordi September 29, 2021 "The situation of political and ideological prisoners in Iran is appalling. This isn’t kept secret from anyone. But if you are a religious [...]
Baha'i citizen Sheida Taeed has been arrested in Mazandaran province for the third time. (IranWire) September 28, 2021 Multiple arrests of members of the Baha’i community took place in Iran over the past week. In Shiraz, Hayedeh Forootan and her son Mehran Mosalanejad were detained last Thursday by the security forces. According to Human Rights Activists News [...]
A general view of the Greater Tehran Prison. (Supplied) September 25, 2021 The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported Saturday that Aghli Hatami, father of Amir-Hossein Hatami, a 22-year-old Kurd who died in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, had refused to accept his son’s body for burial. Hengaw, which is based in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, [...]
Iranian Christian priests pray during a new year mass at a church in Tehran. (REUTERS) By Hamed Farmand September 23, 2021 It was the last week of September 2020 when an Iranian-Christian-convert couple lost custody of their two-year-old adopted daughter, Lydia. The court statement mentioned that Lydia had a strong attachment to her parents [...]
Iranian Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri. (Supplied) September 21, 2021 Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, has defended the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ incursions on Iraqi territory in the Kurdistan region over the past two weeks. The commander said IRGC missile and drone strikes on "terrorist" [...]
A man in a wheelchair eats as he waits to be evacuated from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters) September 17, 2021 Reports received by Iran International say nine Iranian Kurdish refugees who were deported from Turkey to a rebel-held area in Syria three weeks ago are facing a religious trial [...]
Guards drag an emaciated prisoner, at Evin prison in Tehran, Iran. (AP) September 16, 2021 Amnesty International published a list of 72 individuals Wednesday whose deaths in custody since January 2010 it said Iran had not adequately explained despite reports that they resulted from torture and ill treatment, including firearms and tear gas. “In 46 [...]
