US backs Iranian protests, blames country’s woes on support for terror groups
OVER 130 RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONDEMN IRAN REGIME FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
OVER 130 RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONDEMN IRAN REGIME FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, has led over 50 British bishops and nearly 80 US church leaders to condemn the Iranian Regime for its human rights abuses and mistreatment of religious minorities in a statement released today.
What Trump doesn’t get about ideology in Iran. It’s about nationalism, not theocracy.
What Trump doesn’t get about ideology in Iran. It’s about nationalism, not theocracy.
The Trump administration has made clear that it wants regime change in Iran, but its actions have made such an outcome far less likely, short of war. The U.S. decision to exit the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action not only undermines the domestic forces in Iran best positioned to produce actual, if incremental, change but also empowers local actors whose interests lie in provoking violent conflict with the United States and its regional allies.
US should sanction Iran’s notorious ‘hanging judge’
US should sanction Iran’s notorious ‘hanging judge’
The story is as jarring as it is depressingly familiar.
In mid-May, Iranian judge Abolghassem Salavati told a British-Iranian prisoner to expect a new conviction on fresh charges of “propaganda against the state.” Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, whom Salavati first sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 on equally specious espionage allegations, constitutes one of more than a dozen known dual and foreign nationals — including at least seven U.S. citizens and permanent residents — languishing in Iran’s notorious jails for putatively seeking to overthrow the Islamist regime.
She defends the downtrodden. So Iran put her in jail.
She defends the downtrodden. So Iran put her in jail.
WHEN HASSAN ROUHANI ran for president of Iran in 2013, he campaigned on the promise of promoting human rights and individual freedoms in a country that retained a strong authoritarian bent. Five years after his election, it is becoming clear that Mr. Rouhani has failed to deliver on these promises. Last week’s arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is a telling reminder that the regime’s repressive tactics remain largely unchanged.
U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil Stir Up a Corner of the Market
U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil Stir Up a Corner of the Market
Effects of the U.S. decision to renew sanctions on OPEC member Iran are already spreading beyond the world of crude to some corners of the oil market.
Detained Iranian lawyer charged with ‘collusion with client’
Detained Iranian lawyer charged with ‘collusion with client’
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said that, according to Sotoudeh’s husband, interrogators have told her she is charged with ‘propaganda against the state’ and ‘assembly and collusion’ because she colluded with a defendant in court.
Iran: Dervish Member Executed
Iran: Dervish Member Executed
(Beirut) – Iran’s judiciary executed Mohammad Sallas, a Dervish minority member, on June 18, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. He was convicted after a trial that raises serious concerns about its fairness, and despite serious allegations that the authorities tortured him in detention. Sallas’s family was allowed to bury his body in Boroujerd cemetery in Lorestan province, in western Iran, under a heavy security presence, though activists reported that his children were not allowed to view his body.
U.S. expresses ‘deep concern’ over Iran’s arrest of rights lawyer
U.S. expresses ‘deep concern’ over Iran’s arrest of rights lawyer
The United States expressed concern on Thursday at reports of the re-arrest of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who most recently represented women detained for protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law, the State Department said.
Sotoudeh, who has represented Iranian opposition activists, was sentenced to six years in jail in 2010 and banned from practice after being convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security.
“We call on Iranian authorities to release her immediately, along with the hundreds of others who are currently imprisoned simply for expressing their views and desires for a better life,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
Source: Reuters – U.S. expresses ‘deep concern’ over Iran’s arrest of rights lawyer
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Iran Briefing | News Press Focus on Human Rights Violation by IRGC, Iran Human Rights
The United States expressed concern on Thursday at reports of the re-arrest of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who most recently represented women detained for protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law, the State Department said. Sotoudeh, who has represented Iranian opposition activists, was sentenced to six years in jail in 2010 and banned from practice after being convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. “We call on Iranian authorities to release her immediately, along with the hundreds of others who are currently imprisoned simply for expressing their views and desires for a better life,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. Sotoudeh, who has represented Iranian opposition activists, was sentenced to six years in jail in 2010 and banned from practice after being convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. “We call on Iranian authorities to release her immediately, along with the hundreds of others who are currently imprisoned simply for expressing their views and desires for a better life,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
Iran arrests human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh after she criticised judiciary
Iran arrests human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh after she criticised judiciary