Author: AIAINY
Townhall | Ivan Sascha Sheehan | Nov 27, 2024 In a meeting at the White House to discuss the upcoming transition, President Joe Biden acknowledged to President-elect Donald Trump that Iran is the most pressing foreign threat to the United States, its allies, and their collective interests. That threat has been underscored over the past year by worsening conflict between Israel and Iran’s militant proxies in the surrounding region, which has twice given way to direct exchanges of fire between the two countries. And just this past week, the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors called…
Iran News Update | Mahmoud Hakam | 25th November 2024 Tribute to a Courageous Political Prisoner A collective of intellectuals, human rights defenders, and political figures, including Elisabeth Badinter, Ingrid Betancourt, and Laurence Tubiana, have condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran’s treatment of Maryam Akbari Monfared. Imprisoned since 2009, Maryam is one of Iran’s longest-serving political detainees. Her transfer to Qarchak Prison, notorious for its brutal conditions, has intensified international calls for her release. A Life Stolen by Oppression Maryam Akbari Monfared, a mother of three, has endured 15 years of incarceration, starting with a 15-minute trial that sentenced her…
by OIAC | October 5, 2024 On Tuesday, September 24, 2024, thousands of Iranian Americans and their supporters from across 40 U.S. states held a large rally outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City to call on the international community to stand with the Iranian people and recognize their right to overthrow the clerical regime. The large-scale gathering denounced Iran regime president Masoud Pezeshkian’s presence at the U.N. and expressed support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Participants also commemorated the 2022 uprising and called for regime officials to be held accountable for massacre and genocide in Iran. The…
United Nations | September 13, 2024 The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women’s activism, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent investigators warned in an update released on Friday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran relies on a system, both in law and in practice, that fundamentally discriminates on the grounds of gender,” the update noted, highlighting the far-reaching impacts on women and girls’ bodily autonomy, freedom of expression and religion, as well as a wide range of economic, social and cultural rights. The heightened repression comes two years after the…
Iran Focus | Mehdi Hosseini | September 2, 2024 On August 24, an international conference titled “Crimes Against Humanity: Time for Accountability and an End to Impunity” brought together former UN officials, legal experts, and human rights advocates to emphasize the necessity of justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran. The conference, which included participation from Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, underscored ongoing efforts to hold Iranian regime officials accountable for their past and present crimes. Maryam Rajavi’s speech focused on the continuing human rights abuses in Iran, urging international action against the regime. She…
THE HILL | BY RAMESH SEPEHRRAD | July 14, 2024 The recent presidential election in Iran, marked by historically low voter turnout and pervasive public rejection, underscores the profound disillusionment and frustration coursing through society. Masoud Pezeshkian, while touted by some as a reformist, epitomizes the paradox of Tehran’s politics, where the facade of change masks a deeply entrenched crisis of survival. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s increasingly tenuous grip on power is evident as he navigates a regime riddled with internal strife, economic challenges and a society that has rejected his regime in its entirety. This election, far from heralding stabilization, portends a tumultuous…
By Nadine Yousif | BBC News, Toronto | 6/20/2024 Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, after years of pressure from opposition legislators and some members of the Iranian diaspora. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc called it a “significant tool in fighting global terrorism”. The move will mean that thousands of senior Iranian government officials, including top IRGC officials, will be barred from entering Canada. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, quoted by Iran’s Fars news agency, has condemned what he described as the “unwise and unconventional” step. The IRGC is a…
March 13, 2024 Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges the U.S. government to support a United Nations (UN) Security Council referral to the International Criminal Court following the finding by a panel of UN-appointed experts that Iran’s crackdowns on protests against mandatory hijab and other religious freedom violations amount to crimes against humanity. Last week, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran determined that this repression “intersects with discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and religion.” “The Fact-Finding Mission’s determination reflects meticulous consideration of the evidence of the Iranian regime’s egregious…
08 March 2024 GENEVA (8 March 2024) –The violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls has led to serious human rights violations by the Government of Iran, many amounting to crimes against humanity, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran said in its first report today. The report to the Human Rights Council said violations and crimes under international law committed in the context of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests that began on 16 September 2022 include extra-judicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty,…
FIONA HAMILTON | THE TIMES | JANUARY 8, 2024 Wikipedia entries have been changed to downgrade Iranian human rights atrocities and other abuses, The Times has learnt. The alterations raise concerns that the site is being used to manipulate information about the hardline Islamic regime. Details have been changed to discredit dissident groups, and government publications have been presented as impartial sources on the free online encyclopaedia. In one case key details about mass executions by the regime were removed. The involvement of senior officials in the 1988 death commissions, in which thousands of political prisoners were killed, was also…