Posts Tagged: Iran Human Rights
EU Parliament Iran Visit Under Fire For Not Including Meeting with Human Rights Winners
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has criticized the European Parliament for going forward with a trip to Iran despite the country's refusal to allow the parliament's...
Argo, Iran, and the Bomb
In the Oscar award-winning movie Argo, we get a glimpse of the brutal nature of the Iranian regime during the Islamic Revolution of...
Iran Human Rights Investigation Should be Renewed, AJC Tells UN
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has asked the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the UN's Iran human rights abuse investigator....
Five Iranian Christians Set to Begin Trial Amid Human Rights Crackdown
Five Iranian Christian converts who were arrested last year are scheduled to begin trial in Iran's Revolutionary Court this week. The five Christians, who belonged to...
Company Whose Cranes Were Used for Public Hangings Withdraws From Iran
After the revelation that its cranes were being used for executions in Iran, Austrian company Palfinger has communicated to United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI)...
Peres on Israel’s Security: “I Wouldn’t Even Say That We Know Who Our Enemies Are”
The President of the State of Israel, President Shimon Peres, met Sunday morning with a bipartisan delegation of senators and congressmen at his residence in...
The UN Secretary-General and Mary Robinson’s Iranian debacle
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon—who is reportedly headed to Tehran for the conference of the "non-aligned movement," beginning Aug. 26—would have been wise to more...
Two Reports from State Dept. Provide Sobering Look at Iran
The State Department issued two reports this week, one on patterns on global terrorism and the other on religious freedom and oppression around the world....
Anti-Semitic Cartoon Wins Iranian Festival Prize
A vilifying cartoon portraying Jewish worshipers praying before the New York Stock Exchange has been declared the winner in Iran's first annual International Wall Street...
