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Iran: Political Prisoners Held with Violent Criminals

Human Rights Watch: The confinement of political prisoners in Iran together with violent criminals endangers their lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...

Mullahs tighten grip as US looks to Iran

Scotland on Sunday: SABRE-rattling by George W Bush against Iran as the world’s primary state sponsor of terrorism has given the mullahs who run...

Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 – A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily...

Iran human rights record ‘to be loathed’ — Rice

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up Washington's verbal assault on Iran on Thursday, saying the hardline Islamic regime's treatment of its...

Iran party raid leaves dozens injured, 9 arrested

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in Karaj (central Iran), host to a coed party, arresting nine...

Helsinki Commission To Focus on Iran

New York Sun: The new chairman of the Helsinki Commission says he plans to use the Cold War institution to highlight Iranian human rights...

Journalist has spent 5,000 days in prison

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned the hounding by the authorities of Taghi Rahmani, who since 1981 has spent a total of...

UN Urges Iran to Halt Execution of Young Offenders

Reuters: A United Nations human rights body called on Iran on Friday to abolish the death penalty as well as amputation, flogging and stoning...

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Iran is the Second Largest Prison for Writers in the World

The 2023 Freedom to Write Index, released by PEN America, shows that Iran continues to be the world’s second-largest...

Iranian Proxies Still Planning Attacks on US Forces

On Thursday, May 2, Avril Haines, the director of the U.S. National Intelligence Agency, told a Senate Armed Services...

Growing Calls for the Terrorist Designation of the IRGC

On Monday, April 29, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanani, in a weekly press briefing, claimed that...

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Iranian Proxies Still Planning Attacks on US Forces

On Thursday, May 2, Avril Haines, the director of...

Resignation, Job Change, and Nurse Exodus in Iran

The state-run Hame-Mihan newspaper has addressed the problems of...

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