A significant shift in the situation of human rights in Iran requires a change in the balance of power between the government and people who are seeking change.
"One of the nightmares of my life that always recurs is that [my father's murder] seems to happen again and again in my sleep, while I struggle to find a way to stop it."
U.S. sanctions have put the spotlight on the activities of Iran's Al-Mustafa International University, a network of religious seminaries that has been accused of espionage and the recruitment of foreign fighters.
In Ebrahim Zalzadeh's last editorial, addressed to the Iranian regime's strong man, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, he declared, "Dictatorship will not last."
Rouhangiz Soltaninejad -- whose husband, Hamid Hajizadeh, and nine-year-old son, Karoun Hajizadeh, were both killed in the Political Chain Murders -- has broken her silence after 22 years.
Iran has executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.
"The tragedy of that day was not just receiving the news of Majid's death, but relaying it to my fifteen-year-old son."
His brother, Hossein Davani, says that no trace remains of his brother, who he says was murdered in the heat of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence's project to kill dissidents in 1998.
A machine gun controlled by a satellite was used in last week's assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has said.
New Iranian legislation requiring officials to boost uranium enrichment within the country's controversial nuclear program is seen as an attempt to hurt moderates and sabotage President Hassan Rohani’s efforts to deal with the incoming U.S. administration.
In Iran, hard-liners are calling for tough action to deter international attacks like the one that killed one of the fathers of its nuclear program. Moderates are warning against closing off avenues to diplomacy with the incoming U.S. administration.
New legislation proposed in Iran would impose 25-year jail terms on illegal migrants while also giving officials the authority to fire on vehicles suspected of carrying asylum seekers.
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