by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Feb 2019 | News
L to R: Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad Vafadar and Shahrooz Eslamdoust (Middle East Concern) Three more members of the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s “Church of Iran” group in Rasht have been arrested and taken to an unknown location. Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2019 | Features
By Anahita Babmohammadi On 19 February 1979, just eight days after the revolution, Anglican pastor Arastoo Sayyah was brutally murdered in his church office in Shiraz. Rev Sayyah was the first of several church leaders murdered in Iran in the violent early...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2019 | News
Shamiram Issavi’s appeal against her five-year jail sentence for “acting against national security” was postponed after a hearing today at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The new presiding judge, Ahmad Zargar, appeared visibly confused at the details...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Feb 2019 | News
The US secretary of state has highlighted the hypocrisy of top Iranian officials sending their children to schools in America while at the same time claiming that Iran offers its citizens all the freedom and opportunities they need. “You have the very people...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Feb 2019 | News
A Tehrani woman who converted to Christianity has been told she could face a ten-year prison sentence for “disturbing public order, propagating Christianity and connecting with foreign entities”. Simin Soheili, 40, was arrested on 30 January and transferred to Evin...
