Yahoo Reinstates Email for Iranians
Washington, DC – Beginning late last week, Yahoo made good on its May promise to reinstate the ability for Iranians to create email accounts. Yahoo is the top email provider for Iranians; however, a policy change in late 2013 that required users to provide a phone number for new accounts barred numbers from […]
Experts Warn Against MEK Terrorist Group’s Lobbying Efforts
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDkGJNcqyo] One exchange of note at NIAC’s Answering the Iranian People’s Call for Human Rights conference on Capitol Hill centered on the terror group Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK. The MEK is currently ramping up its lobbying efforts in Congress to be taken off the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, which would enable it to raise […]
A Half-Hearted Attempt at Accountability
A military court in Iran sentenced two men on Wednesday to death and nine others to jail for the torture of three protesters which resulted in their death last summer at the notorious Kahrizak detention center. According to the report on Jahan News, an additional 33 others were also accused of attacking a student dormitory […]
HRW: Abuses Ordered from Top Officials
Human Rights Watch released a report on Friday emphasizing that the nature, and scale of abuses in Iran indicate that attacks on demonstrators and detainees “were ordered and coordinated at the highest levels.” It asked the Iranian government to investigate the nation’s top security officials. It said that its research indicates a pattern and degree […]