Posts Tagged: Iran Human Rights
Iran’s Rouhani One Year After Election: International Sanctions Futile, Companies Already Signing Contracts
On the first anniversary of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's appointment, he insisted that the Islamic Republic was poised to outlive the international sanctions on the...
Has Your State Done Enough About Iran?
State legislatures across the country are debating social issues from women's right to gay rights. Yet, seldom does the debate venture to the denial of...
Rouhani is No ‘Moderate’ on Human Rights
The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime -...
Iran’s Judiciary Chief: Islamic Republic Doesn’t Care for Western Human Rights
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Amoli Larijani on Saturday said that Iran does not care for Western human rights, according to semi-official Iranian state news agency...
Official: Iran Doesn’t Accept Western Human Rights Criteria
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council, said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic rejects the human rights norms and standards accepted by western...
Analysis: New Iranian President Brings No Respite for Dissidents
Slate - The past few days have brought some worrying signs that the more conciliatory foreign policy of Hassan Rouhani's administration does not mean the...
Execution Inc.: A Tutorial for Peter Beaumont on Iran’s ‘Moderate’ Leader
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor for the Guardian and Observer, argued in a November 30 article that the interim deal inked in Geneva between Iran and...
Iran: Four Christians Sentenced to 80 Lashes Each for Drinking Ceremonial Wine
The Independent - Four Iranian Christians have been sentenced to 80 lashes for drinking ceremonial wine during a communion service and possessing a satellite radio...
Preventing a Nuclear Iran is an Act of Tikkun Olam
Tikkun Olam: the Hebrew phrase for repairing a broken world and making it a better place. Some analysts argue that Iran's new president will bring a...
Eight More Iranian Christians Sentenced to Jail, Says Rights Group
JNS.org - Eight members of the Christian underground Church of Iran in Shiraz were sentenced to jail last week after being found guilty of...
Wife of Imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Pleas Before UN Human Rights Council
JNS.org - The wife of imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini, Naghmeh, made an impassioned plea for the release of her husband before the United Nations...
Why I’m ‘Adopting’ an Iranian Prisoner
This week, parliamentarians in Canada and the United States have been focusing attention on the dangers posed by the Iranian government, sounding the...
Iran Shuts Down Largest Persian-Language Pentecostal Church Ahead of Elections
Imprisoned Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini. Photo: ACLJ. JNS.org - Iranian authorities have closed the country's largest Persian-language Pentecostal church, Central Assemblies of God Church (AoG),...
Iran’s American Prisoner
In January, an American Christian was sentenced to an eight-year prison sentence on charges of "endangering national security" in Iran. A 32-year-old ...
