UN Denounces Iran for Human Rights Violations
The U.N. General Assembly has approved a new resolution yesterday, denouncing serious human rights violations in Iran. Member States voiced deep concern at Iran’s “serious ongoing and recurring human...
View ArticleOne Year into the House Arrest of Iran’s Opposition Leaders
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, two presidential candidates in the disputed June 2009 election and the leaders of post-election protests, along with Zahra Rahnavard, an outspoken critic and...
View ArticleRevolutionary Iran in Transition
The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) has published online Iran: a revolutionary republic in transition, edited by Rouzbeh Parsi. “The volume presents an in-depth assessment of the...
View ArticleIran: Dramatic Surge in Repression of Dissent
Amnesty International has released today a new, 71-page report on escalation of crackdown in Iran, entitled ‘We are ordered to crush you': Expanding repression of dissent in Iran. Describing how Iran...
View ArticleUN Special Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, has released 36-page report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The report has documented “striking pattern of...
View ArticleOlivier Roy on Transformation of Islamists
Foreign Policy has published an excerpt from Olivier Roy’s essay in the book The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are, edited by Robin Wright, which will be released on April 18, 2012. Explaining...
View ArticleWhy Iran’s Autocrats Cannot Rest Easy
In a piece in New York Times, Middle East scholar Ray Takeyh says that Iran’s autocrats should not be eluded by dream of dictatorial stability. Reviewing the successive social movements in postwar...
View ArticleFreedom of the Press 2012: Iran Ranked 192
Freedom House has released today its annual survey of freedom of the press around the world. The report finds “precarious but potentially far-reaching gains for media freedom in the Middle East and...
View ArticleThe Tragic Farce of Voting in Iran
Iran will hold tomorrow a second round of parliamentary elections to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislative body. At the first round, Iran’s democratic opposition and main...
View ArticleTortured to Death for Blogging in Iran
After the Islamic Republic’s successful crackdown on the Green Movement protesters and political activists, Iranian hardliners have been moving swiftly to lay the foundation for a totalitarian security...
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