By Pooya Stone

The spread of poverty among the people in Iran is a topic that is frequently discussed by the media and government experts. The catastrophe of poverty is so bad, that poor people are now posting ads about their needs, including the need for food.

By Pooya Stone

Instead of answering the question of why students were left without a book for 20 days at the start of the school year, Ahmadreza Amini, the Director-General of Supervision and Distribution of Educational Materials in Iran, first outlined the process of textbook printing, and finally cited several factors, while hiding the main cause of this situation which is corruption by Iranian officials.

By Pooya Stone

Iran’s Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri recently claimed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei agreed to all outstanding resolutions of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) over Iran’s financial transactions and demanded the ratification of the two FATF bills still being held up in Iran’s Guardian Council and Expediency Council.

By Jubin Katiraie

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is preventing Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian from being released for medical treatment, even though her family has paid a bail bond.

By Pooya Stone

A man from Ohio was sentenced to 20 months in prison yesterday by the US District Court for exporting gas and oil pipeline parts to Iran for over ten years in a deliberate violation of US embargo and trade sanctions that have been in place since 1995.

By Pooya Stone

Javaid Rehman says 7 minors were put to death last year and 2 so far this year; killings come despite human rights law prohibiting the death penalty for anyone under the age of 18

By Jubin Katiraie

On October 22, the International Judo Federation (IJF) banned Iran from all competitions authorized by the federation and its unions.

By Pooya Stone

40 years ago, in tandem with founding the Islamic Republic in Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini established a long-term policy under the name “exporting the revolution”.

By Pooya Stone

On Tuesday, Quartz published an editorial by Kelly Nascimento-DeLuca, who is the daughter of the football star known as Pele and is presently working on a documentary about women’s soccer.

By Jubin Katiraie

Back in September, workers of Iran’s Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) marched through the streets of Arak and blocked the north-south railroad to protest months of unpaid wages and the privatization of the company, which has destroyed the once productive factory.

Iranian regime’s apologists who see the imminent downfall of the clerical regime desperately try to justify the regime’s 40 years of crime via demonizing its only legitimate and viable alternative, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK).  

Recently, the NBC website parroted blatant lies about the MEK and repeated the Mullah’s 4-decade long-debunked allegations, while refusing to publish the MEK’s rebuttal to this article. NBC’s article is the latest in a series of organized attacks against the MEK via outlets with pro-engagement and pro-appeasement tendencies towards the Iranian regime. 

Albanian General Police Director Ardi Veliu said Wednesday that an active cell of the foreign operations unit of the Iranian QUDS force, an extraterritorial section of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had been discovered by Albania’s security institutions.

By Jubin Katiraie

In a comprehensive report released Tuesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed shocking details about the Iranian government's inhumane practice of stealing medicine. The report explained that the shortage of medicine has become a major crisis in Iran, with some medicines becoming extremely scarce and prices rising considerably.

By Pooya Stone

An Iranian Christian pastor will spend at least five years in prison after being sentenced by a judge who is well-known for being extremely unfair to those who are on trial for evangelizing.

By Pooya Stone

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday spoke out against the international threats posed by Iran. Pompeo delivered a speech on “Trump Administration Diplomacy: The Untold Story” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 2019.

Strasbourg - Members of the European Parliament, joined by other dignitaries from across Europe called for a strong European approach vis-a-vis the Iranian regime’s human rights violations and warmongering.

A conference organized by the European Parliament Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup also called for accountability of Iranian regime officials regarding the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. Most of these victims were members and supporters of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).