In a crackdown against domestic opposition, the Islamist government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrested over thirty people yesterday, including the editor of the country’s most popular newspaper, as well as other “police officers, journalists and media workers.” The New York Times reports: Eight other people were on a list of...

In a letter obtained by The Tower, the chairperson of the Holocaust Educational Trust Ireland (HETI) announces that it will ban all references to Israel or the Jewish State at its upcoming annual Holocaust memorial in January. The event, which takes place at Dublin’s Mansion House, is Ireland’s main memorial...

Young Palestinians are increasingly fleeing Gaza for Israel, preferring to risk what they call the “comfort” of Israeli jails to life under Hamas, according to a report today written by journalist Khaled Abu Toameh and published by the Gatestone Institute. Over the past two months, more than 20 Palestinians have been...

Iran’s Arab minority has recently begun to intensify its protests against government discrimination, The Tower has learned from Iranian opposition media sites and organizations. The Ahwazi Arab minority living in Iran’s oil-rich southwest region is protesting pervasive unemployment, lack of basic urban services, severe shortage of appropriate infrastructure- including basic...

As negotiations over the fate of its nuclear program continue in Vienna, Iranian officials have revealed shocking new statistics about the lives of women and children under the Ayatollahs’ regime, including the fact that 1.7 million children are currently working in Iran, according to the state-run News Network TV. Mostafa Fayzi, head of...

Iran is evading and ignoring fresh allegations from United Nations human rights organizations, Arabic and Iranian-opposition media outlets charged on Monday (Arabic link), saying this is not the first time Tehran has ignored such accusations. Ilham Amin Zada, one of the Iranian president’s advisors, responded by saying that global actors were hypocritical...