"The wind in my hair: one Iranian woman’s courageous struggle against being forced to wear the hijab" - Joanna Moorhead

Masih Alinejad has paid a high price for letting her hair down and criticising her government. She’s been sentenced to prison, fled her native Iran and is unable to see her family. Here, she reveals why all she wants is to give women the choice to wear the hijab or not.

"Contestations. L'Arabie Saoudite tente d’éviter un scénario à l'iranienne" - Rai Al-Youm

Les manifestations qui ont éclaté en Iran contre l’austérité et la vie chère effraient le royaume wahhabite, lui aussi en plein marasme économique et confronté à des conflits internes.

"La leçon iranienne" - Anthony Samrani

Cartoon de Kichka

Il est certainement trop tôt pour savoir si le cri de colère du peuple iranien, que certains surnomment « la révolution des œufs », aura des conséquences importantes sur la politique du régime. On ignore si le mouvement va pouvoir trouver un second souffle alors que les pasdaran ont clairement sifflé mercredi la fin de la partie. Compte tenu de l'appareil répressif que les durs sont capables de déployer, il faudra bien du courage au peuple iranien pour continuer à critiquer frontalement le régime – non seulement le président Hassan Rohani, mais aussi le guide suprême Ali Khamenei – comme ils l'ont fait pendant une semaine.

"Iran unrest: it's the economy, stupid, not a cry for freedom or foreign plotters" - Simon Tisdall

World leaders trying to exploit the narrative around the protests ignore the real economic problems being faced by ordinary people

IRAN: Annual report on the death penalty 2016

The 9th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment and analysis of death penalty trends in 2016 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

"Trump, Iran, and Stability in the Middle East" - Javier Solana

It is unfortunate that so few international agreements have been reached in recent years. During a period when great-power competition has generally trumped cooperation, two significant exceptions – the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement – offer hope that formalized, multilateral responses to global challenges are still possible.

But now Donald Trump is threatening to renege on both agreements, and his election as President of the United States has revealed their fragility. If the US withdraws from, or fails to comply with, either deal, it will strike a heavy blow to a global-governance system that relies on multilateral agreements to resolve international problems.

"The Year That Ended an Epoch?" - Javier Solana

As 2016 comes to an end, the outlook for 2017 is shrouded in uncertainty. Tensions in the Middle East are rising, and populist movements have appeared in Europe and the United States.

"The Islamic Republic’s War on Women" - Ziba Mir-Hosseini

The election of Hassan Rouhani gave new momentum to Iran’s devout Muslim feminists – but the mullahs aren’t having it.

"Iran elections to have no effect on Lebanon, Syria" - Alex Rowell

Gains made by President Rouhani’s allies will have limited impact even inside Iran, let alone the wider Middle East

Iran Prison Atlas

United for Iran launched the Iran Prison Atlas in 2012 as a real-time tool for documenting the background, treatment, and procedural violations of the cases of Iran’s political prisoners. Since its inception, Iran Prison Atlas has been overseen and updated by former political prisoners, utilizing their experience and contacts. The Atlas now provides a more complete view of Iran’a prison system. The Altas now contains over 2,000 records on Iranian judges, prisons, and political prisoners and is used by United Nations officials, national governments, and advocacy groups worldwide.

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"Former prisoner in Iran believes freedom unappreciated in Canada"

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian Canadian philosopher who first taught at the University of Toronto from 1997 to 2001, and then returned to his native Iran. In his new memoir, Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison, he writes about being arrested in 2006 and placed in solitary confinement for four months. 

"#Watch4Women of Iran"

"As an Iranian-American, both sides of my split identity rejoice at a nuclear deal" - Ali Gharib

By birthright, I would have had every reason to forsake the Islamic Republic and hope that talks to resolve the crisis over its nuclear program would fail. My family left Iran in 1979 – just after the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah – when my mother, pregnant with my sister, fled the country while several members of her huge but tight-knit family were in revolutionary prisons. I owe the Iranian government nothing, and could have easily said, Screw them.

"Assad devra choisir : sauver Damas ou sauver Alep ?"

Les prises de Jisr el-Choughour, d'Idleb et de Palmyre par les groupes armés ont entraîné un affaiblissement significatif du régime de Damas. La perte de contrôle de plus des 2/3 du territoire par les forces loyalistes a relancé les rumeurs sur la chute irrémédiable du régime de Bachar el-Assad, réélu il y a un an jour pour jour à la tête de la Syrie. Qu'en est-il réellement sur le terrain ?

"We have to stop nuclear negotiations from overshadowing Iran's human rights record"

With progress being made in the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, it’s time for a new conversation about Iran – one about the country’s dismal human rights record. The international community’s diplomatic efforts should be deployed to improve the basic tenets of democracy – freedom of speech, freedom of press, right to information, equality of citizens, and free and fair elections.

Espionagem industrial - "Businesses Are Now Combatants in a Cyberwar with China and Iran"

American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran. Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Indeed, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt boldly declares China the world's "most sophisticated and prolific hacker" nation. The President of the United States reportedly has assumed new powers to preserve, protect and defend America's digital infrastructures.

"Depois da Guerra Fria, a "guerra cool""

Cold War technology made war unthinkable. Cool War technology makes it irresistible.

"BEHIND BARS: Rally for Political Prisoners In Iran"

"Prisoners of Conscience Recalled from Furlough, Journalists Threatened in Tehran"

Two journalists and a blogger previously released on furlough have been recalled to prison and are expected to turn themselves in today, and imprisoned lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s promised furlough has not been granted. Security forces have also recently summoned several other journalists in Tehran and have made telephone calls warning them not to support a candidate supported by reformists, a local journalist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

Cartoons - "Nowruz 1392"

As Iranians around the world prepare to celebrate the new year, hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain behind bars in Iran. The Persian New Year, Nowruz, is the most important holiday in Iran, beginning at the moment of the vernal equinox. While the news website Kaleme reports that a dozen political prisoners have been granted temporary furlough for the holidays, this year, hundreds of other prisoners of conscience, including lawyers, journalists, activists, and others accused of vague charges for being critical of the Iranian regime, will be left to mark the new year in their prison cells.

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