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UN Panel Calls For Human Rights Reform In Iran

RFE/RL: A UN General Assembly committee has voted to condemn human rights abuses in Iran, citing a crackdown on media, use of torture, and...

UK Annual Report on Human Rights Condemns Iran

Radio Farda: United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office published it annual report on human rights on November 10. Jack Straw the British Foreign Secretary...

Iranian boy,16, sentenced to death for murder

AFP: Iran's hardline judiciary has sentenced a 16-year-old boy to death for murder, the reformist Shargh daily reported Tuesday. According to the report, the...

Young man street-paraded in northern Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 13 - Iranian officials in the town of Babol (northern Iran) paraded a young man around the town’s main streets...

Iran: Web Writers Purge Underway

Human Rights Watch: The Iranian government is moving to silence Internet and Web-log communications, the last remaining outlet for freedom of expression in the...

Tehran Webloggers arrested in midnight raids

Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 - Security forces have raided and arrested three webloggers in Tehran, according to reports from the Iranian capital.The three,...

Canada wants UN to assess rights situation as worse in Iran

AFP: Canada on Friday introduced a draft resolution at the UN General Assembly on what it maintains is the worsening human rights situation in...

Sixth online journalist thrown in prison as authorities reportedly prepare “adultery” charges

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today deplored the arrest of Iranian journalist Fershteh Ghazi, of the daily Etemad ("Confidence"), for working with reformist...

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Why Nurses in Iran Migrate or Commit Suicide

This year, the issue of suicide among Iran's healthcare personnel resurfaced with the death of a young cardiac specialist...

Farmers Resume Protests in Isfahan, Education Workers Protest Low Wages

Economic protests in Iran on Monday, April 15, continued with farmers gathering in Isfahan province (central Iran) and school...

Iran’s Rial Drops to Record Low After Attack Against Israel

The exchange rate of the US dollar in the Iranian free market experienced a surge of over four percent...

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Bolton says Tehran manipulating Japan

Asahi Shimbun: As a major importer of Iranian oil,...