Reuters     |     By Parisa Hafezi     |     1/8/2021 DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday banned the government from importing COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and Britain, labelling the Western powers “untrustworthy”, as the infection spreads in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country. In a live televised speech,

His advisers cling to the 2015 deal, but the region has moved on NY Times    |    By the Editorial Board     |    Jan. 4, 2021 President Trump’s maximum-pressure sanctions campaign against Iran will continue until his final day in office—and so will Tehran’s escalating violations of the 2015 nuclear

Iranian Americans Outline a Comprehensive, Bi-partisan Iran Policy for 2021 OIAC      |     12/15/2020 WASHINGTON, DC- On December 15, 2020, the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) hosted a virtual event on US policy toward Iran. The event was titled “Iranian Americans Call for a

New York, NY; December 3, 2020 - Association of Iranian Americans in New York congratulates Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) on his selection as the next Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A a community of Iranian Americans whose members have loved ones live under medieval

Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019 killings Amnesty International    |    November 16, 2020 The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale of unlawful killings by security forces, Amnesty International said today. On the anniversary of the

Amnesty International    |    September 2, 2020 Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national security charges Death sentences issued

NCRI    |    Written by Shamsi Saadati    |    July 22, 2020 Morgan Ortagus, the spokesperson of the United States State Department, in a video message on Twitter, while condemning the Iranian regime’s ongoing human rights violations, particularly the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners, called on the “international community to conduct independent investigations and

Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) (Chairman of the House Democratic caucus) Message to 2020 Free Iran Summit June 17-20, 2020 https://youtu.be/BErhJTkw6-w Thank you to the Summit for Free Iran, and I join your call in denouncing the Iranian regime’s terrorism, human rights abuses, nuclear ambitions and suppression of religious freedom. I

Amnesty International    |    10 July 2020 Following the Iranian judicial authorities’ confirmation that on 8 July, a man in the city of Mashhad was executed following repeated convictions for drinking alcohol, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Middle East and North Africa, said: “The Iranian