Iran Human Rights

A mother asks Obama: ‘please remember my Amir’

New York Times: The mother of Amir Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent imprisoned in Tehran for nearly three years, has written to President Obama,...

Iranian court sentences Facebook activists to jail

AP: An Iranian court handed jail sentences of eight to 21 years to eight Facebook page administrators, the official IRNA news agency reported on...

 Iran: 411 executions in the first half of 2014

Death Penalty News: At least 411 prisoners have been executed in Iran from the beginning of January 2014 to the end of June of the...

Iran arrests 3 over World Cup video

AP: Iranian police have arrested three people who appeared in an online video of young men and women singing and dancing in support of...

Freedom of information still flouted a year after Rouhani’s election

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemns the lack of progress for freedom of information and the unacceptable conditions in which journalists and netizens are...

Execution of Iranian political prisoner draws condemnation

NewsBlaze: British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom strongly condemns the execution of Gholamreza Khosravi of the PMOI calling for tough actions against the Iranian officials...

‘Outraged’ experts call for end to death penalty in Iran

Newsroom America: A group of United Nations human rights experts have expressed outrage at the recent executions of two prisoners in Iran, and urged...

Six Iranians arrested after posting ‘Happy’ on YouTube

AFP - Police said on Tuesday they had arrested six Iranians suspected of posting a version of US singer Pharrell Williams's hit song "Happy" on...

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Renewable Water Per Capita in Iran Falls To 1,200 Cubic Meters Per Year

Reports from Iranian regime government institutions show that the "renewable water per capita" indicator for each Iranian citizen has...

The Iranian Plateau Is Turning into a Desert

Every year on June 17, the World Day to Combat Desertification serves as an opportunity to focus on one...

Iran’s Economic Growth Decline Accelerates

The Statistical Center of Iran, a government agency of Iran's regime, announced in its latest report that the country's...

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Inflation in Iran and the Limits of What an Agreement with the United States Can Achieve

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