The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday a technical team will visit Tehran on Sunday aiming to resolve a yearslong impasse over an inquiry into undeclared uranium particles found in Iran.
Today’s vote by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to remove Iran from the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women sends an unmistakable message of support from around the world to the brave people of ...
Authorities in Iran have executed two men convicted of vaguely defined national security charges linked to the anti-government protests that have swept across the country, after what human rights groups have condemned as gross miscarriages of justice.
AMBASSADOR LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD: Thank you all for being here. So today we came together at the United Nations and stood with Iranian women, Iranian girls, and the Iranian people.
The entry of Shia clerics into political affairs in Iran dates back at least five centuries to when this sect of Islam was declared the country’s official religion under the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736).
Italy's foreign minister said on Wednesday he would summon the new Iranian ambassador to condemn "in the strongest terms" the ongoing violation of fundamental rights and freedoms in Iran.
Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in Iran for a "fabricated series of crimes," Belgium's justice minister said on Wednesday, adding the government was doing everything possible to secure his ...
The Friday Imam of Rask in the Iranian border province of Sistan and Baluchistan has confirmed that a 15-year-old girl was raped by the local police chief earlier this month.
The UK has imposed new sanctions on Iran, using restrictive measures against four citizens of the Islamic republic who are involved in the production of drones and their transfer to Russia.
The global soccer players’ union, FIFPRO, said it is “shocked and sickened” by reports that Iranian soccer player Amir Nasr-Azadani faces the possibility of execution “after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country.”
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