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Britain will push for Iran sanctions at UN, says Hague

AFP: Foreign Secretary William Hague has vowed to confront Iran's "repressive" human rights record by pushing for tough sanctions at next week's United Nations...

Amnesty urges Iran to free detained rights lawyer

AFP: Iran must immediately free Abdolfattah Soltani, a prominent human rights lawyer rearrested at the weekend after spending months behind bars between 2005 and...

UN rights investigator urges Tehran to grant visit

AFP: The UN's newly appointed human rights investigator to Iran called Wednesday on Tehran to allow him to visit the country to examine alleged...

Report: Iran on pace for record year for capital punishment

Fox News: Iran has reportedly executed at least 183 people during the first six months of 2011, with reports of an additional 130 executions...

Iran jails prominent lawyer for 9 years

AP: Iran's hard-line judiciary has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer to nine years in jail and barred him from working as an attorney for...

EU names Iranian Guard commanders in Syria sanctions

Reuters: The European Union published extended sanctions on Syria on Friday, including the names of three commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused of supporting...

Lawmakers want U.N. rights auditor barred from Iran

Reuters: Iranian lawmakers urged the government on Sunday to prevent a U.N. investigator from coming to the country to look into allegations of human...

UN rights investigator on Iran named

Reuters: A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in...

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Iran’s Car Market Experiences Sharp Surge in Prices Afte War-Induced Stagnation

Media outlets in Iran report that the prices of many domestically produced cars have increased by 3 billion to...

UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement published on April 29, strongly condemned...

Iran’s National Currency Has Declined by 120% Over the Past Year

Reports from Iran indicate a sharp surge in the price of the U.S. dollar in the open market in...

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UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

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