Iran

„Russland fliegt vom Iran aus Luftangriffe in Syrien. (…) Das Verteidigungsministerium teilte am Dienstag mit, Langstreckenbomber hätten mehrere Ziele in Syrien angegriffen. Der staatsnahe Fernsehsender Rossija 24 berichtete unter Berufung auf iranische und arabische Medien, Maschinen vom Typ Tupolew 22 seien in die iranische Stadt Hamadan verlegt worden. Der Sender zeigte Bilder von mindestens drei Bombern und einem russischen Militärtransportflugzeug,…

„Olympic security personnel questioned a female Iranian volleyball fan Saturday when she showed up for a match holding a large sign that read ‚Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums‘ and wearing a white T-shirt with those same words. Darya Safai, who sat in a front-row courtside seat at Maracanazinho arena and briefly cried during the ordeal ‚because it hurts,‘ said…

Von Andreas Benl Ein Tondokument hält die iranische Gesellschaft in Atem. Vor wenigen Tagen veröffentlichte der Sohn des 2009 verstorbenen Ayatollahs Montazeri eine 40-minütige Aufzeichnung von 1988, die eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Montazeri und prominenten Vertretern der sogenannten Todeskomitees der iranischen Gefängnisse dokumentiert. Im Juli 1988 musste das iranische Regime einen Waffenstillstand mit den Truppen Saddam Husseins akzeptieren, der das Ende…

„Iran is permitted to pursue the construction of two newly announced nuclear plants under the parameters of last summer’s nuclear agreement, Obama administration officials informed the Washington Free Beacon, setting the stage for Tehran to move forward with construction following orders from President Hassan Rouhani. Ali Salehi, Iran’s top nuclear official, announced on Thursday that Iran has invested $10 billion…

„The rights of women and children in Iran are increasingly under threat, according to two reports from human rights monitoring groups published this week.  Amnesty International accused Tehran of treating the activities of women’s groups and activists as criminal acts. ‚It is utterly shameful that the Iranian authorities are treating peaceful activists who seek women’s equal participation in decision-making bodies…

„A recent survey among Sunni religous scholars in the Iranian province of Kermansheh shows that a majority of them (67{a7b8b9982d1bbdc5e1caab033d30320c7a19bdb9cd0371a3252625f5cda85985}) believe that ‚female circumcision‘ is religiously obligatory or at least recommended for girls and women. In this province in the West of Iran, female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced by Sunni Kurds who adhere to the Shafi’i law school. Many…

„Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin hat bei einem Dreiertreffen in Baku eine engere Zusammenarbeit mit seinen Kollegen aus Aserbaidschan und dem Iran vereinbart. (…) Beim Treffen mit dem iranischen Präsidenten Hassan Ruhani standen unter anderem russische Pläne auf dem Programm, im Iran acht Atomreaktoren zu bauen. Eine entsprechende Vereinbarung hatten Moskau und Teheran vor kurzem erzielt. In einem Interview vor dem…

„Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rumoured to be planning a political comeback, has asked Barack Obama to return $2 billion of assets frozen in the US in a letter made public Monday. Ahmadinejad wrote that despite early promises by the US president to improve ties with Iran ‚the same hostile policies along with the same trend of enmity were pursued‘.…

„The head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, made an interesting proposition to European countries during a speech Aug. 3 on the occasion of Human Rights Day in Iran. He said Iran is willing to hold talks on human rights as long as Europe is willing to also discuss the human rights situation in their countries. ‚It cannot be that…

„Hassan Afshar, 19, was executed at the prison in the city of Arak on July 18, according to Amnesty International. The secondary school pupil was executed after he was convicted of raping another boy, during a two-month trial in which he had no legal representation. Afshar was arrested in 2014 along with two other youths, after they were accused of…

„Iran’s top leader distanced himself on Monday from the nuclear agreement reached with major powers a year ago, accusing the United States of failing to honor pledges in the accord and citing ‚the futility of negotiations with the Americans.‘ In blunt remarks prominently featured in Iran’s state news media, the senior leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the talks that led…

Von Felix Balandat Seine Mutter musste nach der Iranischen Revolution 1979 den Hijab tragen, obwohl sie es nie wollte. In den heißen Sommern der Region Chuzestan am nordöstlichen Ufer des Persischen Golfs ging sie in ihrem schweren schwarzen Kleid einkaufen. Als sie wieder zu Hause war, hatte sie aufgrund der Hitze oft nicht einmal die Kraft, zu sprechen. Daran erinnert…

„Iranian Kurdish opposition parties are trying to form one joint Kurdish front in the face of the threats of the Iranian government against Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan. Mohamed Nazif Qadiri told BasNews on July 27 that six Iranian Kurdish opposition sides have met twice over the past weeks, and in their next scheduled meeting they will discuss the necessity of…

„A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to repeat the ‚violation‘. They were planning to participate in a cycling event in the north-western city of Marivan when police told them a new government directive had barred women riding bicycles in public. The opposition National Council of Resistance of…

„The Iranian regime has executed dozens of opposition activists across the country by hanging them to death in public squares, local sources reported on Sunday. Iranian security forces last week arrested over 40 young activists, and executed at least 27 of them. ‚The authorities did not announce the real reason behind the execution of those people. It said they were a…