The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is alarmed by recent reports of the rise of execution orders issued against ...
A Princeton- and Harvard-educated diplomat with a specialty in economics, Mr. Kennedy was halfway through a three-month assignment in Tehran when a Marine came charging down the embassy hallway, ...
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a ...
Regime’s effort to exploit US campus crackdown damaged by treatment of Toomaj Salehi ...
One of the great ironies of the war in Gaza is that it has given a free pass for repression to one of the world’s ugliest regimes — Khamenei’s. Iran’s 85-year-old leader has, of course, been leading ...
Ultimately, the struggle against Iran’s aggression is a battle for the future of the region and the values of the free world. We must stand together in defense of freedom, democracy, and peace. The ...
Governed by the barrel of the gun rather than the hand of the statesman, Iran’s rulers enforce control without legitimacy, steering the nation into a dark tunnel of instability and fear. The fabric of ...
A report by Amnesty International found that executions in Iran had reached an eight-year high in 2023, after the country executed 853 individuals. But in the span of just 10 days, another 37 have ...
Iran is using rap music to promote hardline Islamist values ... Salehi was first arrested in September 2021 after his songs ...
In a rare statement from a Western government, France condemned Iran's taking of hostages to serve as blackmail to extract concessions from the west, including 4 French citizens, for whom the country ...
Despite averting a war with Israel for now, Tehran is nervous. It is cracking down on critics and women who disobey the ...
Khamenei’s gloating is understandable; he’s surely right about the damage that the war is causing to the international ...