The United States is attempting to extend an international arms embargo on Iran’s regime via a second draft U.N. Security Council resolution. If this bid is unsuccessful, Washington has threatened a return of all U.N. sanctions that were previously put on Iran under a 2015 deal. This latest development comes after Congress Republicans introduced a…
20-year-old Iranian women’s rights defender Saba Kord Afshari was arrested on June 1, 2019 and sentenced to 24 years in prison for refusing to wear a regime-mandated headscarf in public. Afshari was sent to a prison under the jurisdiction of the Intelligence Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps where she was allegedly coerced into making false video confessions. According…
Israeli startup Flytrex launched a delivery service of food and essential goods via drones for residents in North Dakota in response to the coronavirus pandemic. These drones can deliver food, medicine, and other necessary items in place of in-person shopping with the intention of preventing store overcrowding and maintaining social distancing guidelines. With Flytrex, select customers can order supplies from a local Walmart on its online ordering app. The items are then…
Authorities have arrested three men in Iran for allegedly attempting to sell newborn babies on the photo-sharing Instagram platform. According to reporting by the semi-official ISNA news agency, the men first bought two babies from their mothers for approximately $500 USD and then resold them for $2,000 and $2,500. The babies were 20 days old…
Rayhaneh Ameri, 22, was recently killed in Kerman, Iran by her father for returning home late one night. In a violent rage, Rayhaneh’s father allegedly beat her with an axe, causing her to bleed out and slowly die. According to a report from last Tuesday, when Rayhaneh’s sister and mother came home to an empty…
A 20-year-old computer science major arrested on April 10 at his parents’ home in Tehran by the regime forces has now reportedly contracted COVID-19 while in custody. Ali Younesi, a high-achieving math and science student, was taken by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps without a warrant in a very violent arrest that allegedly left his forehead…