Twenty one adolescents and children working as porters, carrying goods on their backs across the Iran-Iraq border have died in 2019 from soldiers’ bullets or cold weather.
Iranian security has summoned the parents of a young victim of recent protests to pressure them not to hold a public commemoration.
Tehran's outspoken member of parliament Mahmoud Sadeqi has warned about the dangerous health condition of imprisoned dervishes who are on a hunger strike in Iran.
The son of a key ayatollah in 1980s says he has a second tape proving the government executed thousands in prisons in 1988.
Air pollution will increase in the coming days in Iran’s capital Tehran, the official news agency IRNA quoted an official of the country’s meteorological organization as saying.
An Israeli government study says Jews who had to flee Iran and Arab countries left billion of dollars behind and must be compensated.
Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRO) said on Friday, December 20, that at least 324 people were killed in the November protests according to "credible sources."
In a rare move Kelly Craft, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN walked over to her Iranian counterpart Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Thursday and the two envoys exchanged a few words.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday asked visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to honor the commitments made under the 2015 nuclear agreement known as JCPOA.
In a statement on December 20 Iran’ Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted the U.S. Secretary of State for remarks about Iran human rights.
Iran's Prosecutor General announced that the trials of November protesters still in detention will begin next week but did not say how many are still held in prison.
The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 19 announced sanctions against two Iranian judges, visa restrictions for the family members of those involved in the crackdown on protesters and re-designated Iran as a country of particular concern.
European lawmakers have condemned Iranian security forces’ widespread and disproportionate use of force against non-violent protesters and urged Iran to announce the death toll.
Iran's rank in the new Human Freedom Index has not changed since the previous report was published. It is still among the lowest in the index of human freedom in 162 countries.
President Hassan Rouhani's administration has barred dozens of well-known reformist figures from running for the Iranian parliament.
The UNGA passed a resolution condemning Iran's human rights violations and urged Iran to free those arrested during the crackdown on protesters in November.
There is a serious Internet disruption in Iran on December 19, apparently because of fiber optic lines from Europe.
The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has responded to a series of recent tweets written by the Islamic Republic Supreme Leader in support of a French Holocaust denier.
Iran riot police on December 18 intervened to disperse angry football fans protesting against club officials and the minister of sports for failing to bring the club's Italian coach back to Tehran.
According to the Iranian Parliament's Research Center the budget bill presented to the Majles is unrealistic and government revenues will not cover its expenses.
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