Policy Briefing: Recommendations for the International Community on Iran
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September 16, 2022
Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women
Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after being declared medically ...
May 17, 2022
Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage
May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured domestic media not to cover the ...
August 17, 2021
Lawyers, Activists Arrested as they Attempt to Sue State for Failed COVID Response
Six Arbitrarily Detained as State Tries to Block Attempt to Seek Justice August 17, 2021—The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil rights ...
January 22, 2021
Iran Touts Unverified Domestic Vaccines, Ignores International Condemnation of Non-Scientific Policy
When the World Health Organization approved vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries began planning for mass immunizations. Yet the Iranian supreme leader’s televised speech on January 8--where he announced that “importing American and English vaccines into ...
January 20, 2021
Iranian Rights Groups Call on Khamenei to Allow Purchase of U.S. and UK COVID-19 Vaccines
Iran Should Base COVID-19 Vaccine Decisions on Science January 20, 2021 -- In light of the statement by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
November 7, 2018
Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial
Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by ...
July 31, 2018
Conflicting Reports on Iranian Opposition Leaders’ Freedom From House Arrest
A member of Iran’s Parliament has denied reports that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has ruled to end the seven-year-long house arrests of ...
March 10, 2018
Woman Who Removed Headscarf in Public Sentenced to Prison as Supreme Leader Tries to Diminish Hijab Protests
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has described recent demonstrations in Iran against the country’s compulsory hijab rule as “small ...
January 31, 2018
Iranians Denounce Acquittal of Quran Reciter Accused of Sexual Abuse
Prominent Quran reciter Saeed Tousi shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Reformist MP Releases Info ...
January 12, 2018
Iran’s Supreme Leader Condemns Protests as “Devilish Fireworks”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned the country’s recent nationwide protests as “devilish fireworks” organized by the United States, Israel, regional Arab states and Iranian counter-revolutionaries. “Their intention was to stir things up ...
December 1, 2017
Spokesman Berates Former President Ahmadinejad After He Accuses Judiciary of Corruption
The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary has publicly spoken out against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the former president accused the judiciary of corruption ...
March 3, 2017
Hardliners Float Name of Major Human Rights Violator for Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
For the time being, a powerful hardline cleric implicated in major human rights violations, Ebrahim Raisi, has ruled out his candidacy in Iran’s ...
December 11, 2015
Commentary: Khamenei’s New Letter to Western Youth is Case Study in Hypocrisy
Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has written a letter addressed to youths in Western countries and, as he did in an earlier similar letter, he ...