Araz News: 20 million people are living in Iran’s city outskirts, according to the regime’s parliamentary Social Commission chair. In a recent interview with state TV, Salman Khodadadi said 35% of the country’s population is living in such conditions, adding this...
Araz News: The Public Prosecutor of Zahedan – South Eastern city, confirmed that the Sunni Leader of the Friday prayer of Sistan and Baluchestan pronvince has been summoned to the court. According to the news, Fazl Al-Rahman Kuhi is imprisoned in...
Araz News: When Sadegh married his college sweetheart, he never thought he’d end up as one of those Iranians facing ruin and even prison because of huge sums demanded by his wife’s family. But the “mehrieh” (“affection “) system, in...
Araz News:The 36-minute video, entitled “The Farsi Land: From Yesterday ’till Today,” was issued through IS’s social media channels from Diyala province in neighboring Iraq. A masked man directs his message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Oh, Khamenei,...
Araz News:On 16 March 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), in cooperation with the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational Transparty (NRPTT), convened a side-event to the 34th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Entitled “In the...
Araz News:Iranian security forces arrested 12 administrators of reformist-aligned Telegram channels on March 14-16, 2017, deleted the channels’ content and changed their names. A number of those who were arrested have since been released, but Ali Heydarvalizadeh, the admin of the...
Araz News:Three Baha’i residents of Mashhad named; Khashayar Tafazoli, Shayan Tafazoli and Sinai Aghdaszadeh, were tried by the Islamic Revolutionary Court, in Mashhad. The court hearing for Khashayar Tafazoli, Shayan Tafazoli and Sinai Aghdaszadeh, three Baha’i residents of Mashhad, accused...
Written by Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi freelance journalist based in the USA International recognition of Iran’s 90-year occupation of the Arab state of Ahwaz would be a fatal blow to the Iranian regime and its regional expansionism and interventions, say...
Araz News:Over the past decade, a significant portion of Iran’s economic institutions have been handed off to the office of the Supreme Leader under the guise of “privatization.” The driving force behind this stunning power grab is the expanding sphere...
Araz News:Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed relations with neighboring Azerbaijan as “friendly, brotherly and strategic,” saying they share close views on regional issues. Tehran-Baku ties “have made considerable progress in the past three years,” Rouhani said at a joint...
Araz News: Iran had requested to buy 950 tons of uranium concentrate from Kazakhstan over the next three years. According to Iran official news agency ISNA, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said. “The purchase was supposed...
Araz News: On Monday, February 27, Hossein Ali Shahriari, Regime’s MP from Southeastern city of Zahedan said “What is wrong with poor people sell their Kidney?” He has an interview with ‘Shafa online’ and he stated that if a poor...
By Rahim Hamid Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs led a demonstration in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in solidarity with the Arab people of Ahwaz currently experiencing the worst brutality to date in another crackdown by...
Araz News:Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz held a demonstration in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna in support of the ongoing Ahwazi popular protests in throughout the Ahwaz region on 17 Feb. Also, Ahwazi Arab...
Araz News: On Saturday 18 Feb, demonstrations are continuing for the fifth day in a row in Ahwaz despite the oppressive measures taken by the Iranian regime to quell the protest. The Iran regime imposed curfew for three days in...