While it puts on a moderate face when dealing with the West, Iran is still going strong stirring up controversy over women’s rights in the country – or, more accurately, the lack thereof. The most recent controversy involved not Iranian…
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Air France Flight Attendants ‘Revolt’ After Getting ‘Iran Treatment’
Tagged with: Air France, Atena Ffarghadani, Hossein Maleki, Iran, Iran Media Focus, Iran Wire, Middle East, Sanctions, Tehran, women's rights in Iran
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Hostility to History – Common to ISIS and Iran
The Islamic State terror group has been busy in Syria and Iraq in recent months. It hasn’t just been conquering villages, beheading people, persecuting minorities, executing journalists/aid workers/pilots alike and forcing conversion on entire communities. In line with its first…
Iran’s Child Brides and forced marriages – No Longer Newsworthy?
In a country notorious for allowing sigheh, or temporary marriages seen as a cleric-sanctioned form of prostitution, forced marriage and its underlying causes hardly seem to be newsworthy. But what about coverage outside of Iran? A few years ago, the…
Tagged with: Child Bride, Child Rights in Iran, Human Rights, Human Rights in Iran, Iran, Iran Media Focus, Iran Student Correspondents Association, Iran Wire, marriages, Middle East, sigheh, Tehran, women in Iran, women's rights in Iran
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Introducing: The Mullah Sutra
Throughout 2014, we told you about the Iranian attitude to the LGBT community, reporting that two men may have been hanged in the country’s south for “consensual sodomy.” We stated that this was emblematic of a wider issue, one with…
Tagged with: executions in Iran, Human Rights in Iran, Iran, Iran Media Focus, Iran Wire, LGBT in Iran, Middle East, P5+1, Tehran, The Daily Beast
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Posted in Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Subjective Truth In Iran– The Evin unfolding Narrative
The media outcry over the brutal violence against political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison has died down in recent days, its echoes heard mostly in Iran-focused watchdogs who have brought readers the latest updates. Dissident blog Good Morning Iran, for…
Tagged with: Ahmadinejad, Evin prison, Good Morning Iran, Hassan Rowhani, Human Rights, human rights abuses, Human Rights in Iran, Iran, Iran Media Focus, Iran Wire, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, iranian revolutionary guard corps, Middle East, Payvand, political prisoners, Sussam Tahmasebi, The Algemeiner
Posted in BBC, Hassan Rouhani, Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Posted in BBC, Hassan Rouhani, Human Rights, Iranian Internal Issues, Iranian Politics, Media Coverage
Should Zarif be using Social Media?
Since the implementation of the Geneva deal we’ve reported a bit on the startling rise in executions under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, even as Iran engages more closely with the West. It’s not just the executions which have been getting…
Tagged with: Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Azeri Trend news agency, CDICC, Commission secretary Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, facebook, Hassan Rowhani, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Media Focus, Iran nuclear program, Iran Wire, Iran’s nuclear program, Iranian censorship policy, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Manoto channel, Media, Mehdi Karroubi, Middle East, Mohammed Javad Zarif, Saham News
Posted in Hassan Rouhani, Human Rights, Iranian elections, Iranian Financial Sanctions, Iranian Nuclear Crisis, Media Coverage
Posted in Hassan Rouhani, Human Rights, Iranian elections, Iranian Financial Sanctions, Iranian Nuclear Crisis, Media Coverage
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