A United Nations panel of 33 member states reviewed Iran’s human rights record in Geneva on Friday and voicing criticism offered their recommendations to improve women’s and minority rights and stop capital punishment.
Amnesty International has said that “a significant portion of the deadly projectiles” used against protesters in Iraq are smoke and tear gas grenades “manufactured by the Defense Industries Organization (DIO) of Iran.”
In a written interview from prison, a renowned Iranian rights defender says without justice in Iran it makes no difference if you are in prison or not.
In a live Instagram video show, Iran's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) minister has responded to accusations of nepotism and influencing government contracts.
President Tayyip Erdogan says he will discuss the case of Turkish lender Halkbank with U.S. President Donald Trump during talks in Washington next week, broadcaster NTV and other media reported on Friday.
An agency offering training and assistance for polygamy has created controversy in Iran, but it is somehow allowed to exist.
A new research paper published by the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies says Iran has developed a "sovereign capability to conduct warfare through third parties" in the Middle East."
Iran's top military commanders on Thursday presented an upbeat picture of the capabilities of the country's armed forces without mentioning any details or concrete evidence.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday vowed that Israel would never allow the Islamic Republic to acquire nuclear weapons.
As announced earlier this week, Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear facility by injecting uranium gas into centrifuges, the country's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) said early Thursday local time.
The rate of marriages in Iran dropped by nine percent in the 2018 compared with the previous year, an official at the National Organization for Civil Registration (NOCR), Alireza Sajedi, says.
The United States has called Iran's latest step to reduce its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal "a big step in the wrong direction."
Two Iranians have pleaded guilty of acting as illegal agents of the government of Iran in the United States, the US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia announced in a press release on Tuesday November 5.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has tweeted that the people of Iraq and Lebanon have a right to free themselves of Iranian “regime’s” influence.
The former managing director of the Islamic Republic Ports and Shipping Organization (PSO) and member of ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear negotiating team, Mohammad Saeidi, has been arrested in Tehran, local news outlets report.
Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister Khaled al-Jarallah has said on Tuesday that Kuwait conveyed messages from Iran to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain regarding the situation in the Gulf region, and "until now no answers have emerged".
The former chairman of Iranian parliament’s influential National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says that Iranian crude oil exports are currently twenty times less than what it was before sanction were imposed by Washington.
Violence in Iraq intensified in Iraq protests as the government allowed security forces to open fire on protesters, killing 8 on Monday and at least 5 more demonstrators on Tuesday.
Iran's decision to take a new step to reduce commitments to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal is a concern, putting the accord at risk, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
Iran's Central bank has issued new anti-money laundering rules, after a year of inaction by hardliners dominating bodies that are tasked with approving dormant legislation.
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