Middle East Iran summons Australian envoy over sanctions, human rights concerns Australia sanctioned 4 Iranians, 3 entities, accusing them of oppressing people in Iran ...

Australia is imposing more sanctions on Iranian officials on the second anniversary of the jailing and death of Mahsa Jina Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman was arrested in September ...

Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says "unfortunately, the nuclear energy issue has stalemated many issues in Iran, ...

Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh, told the U.N. Human Rights Council: “I should be excused for failing to find any reason to be appreciative of the report, which is just ...

The human rights situation in Iran has worsened since the government's crackdown on anti-government protests following the disputed June 2009 presidential election. Political activists, lawyers ...

A new U.N. report on human rights in Iran says executions and discrimination against women is concerning. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks after returning from the annual United Nations ...

The State Of Human Rights In Iran This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. In February 1979, the Shah fled Iran and an Islamic fundamentalist regime took over.

Iran executed at least 966 prisoners in 2015, the highest number in over two decades, according to Ahmed Shaheen, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. (Christophe Ena ...

On January 16, 2011, The International Campaign on Human Rights in Iran reported that Iran had hanged at least 47 prisoners, "or an average of about one person every eight hours," since the ...

It was created following a 2014 resolution at the UN Human Rights Council introduced by Iran on behalf of the anti-Western Non-Aligned Movement. She is the second person to assume the role.

The Biden administration is reportedly poised to lift all sanctions on many of Iran’s worst human rights abusers and terrorism sponsors in exchange for remarkably weak nuclear concessions from ...

CFR Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh argues that it is necessary for the United States to emphasize human rights issues during discussions of a nuclear agreement with Iran.