Religions enjoy total freedom in Iran: Archbishop
Grigor Chiftchian, the archbishop of Armenians in Azerbaijan, has ruled out allegations made by enemies regarding the rights of followers of religions…
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Politicization biggest scourge of human rights: Official
Iranian human rights officials slammed Western countries for their use of human rights as a political vehicle or goods to exert pressure…
Tehran rejects ‘politically motivated’ Guterres report on human rights in Iran
Tehran has dismissed as politically motivated a recent report by UN Secretary General António Guterres on human rights in Iran, saying the…
Iran slams UK plan to send some migrants to Rwanda
Deputy Head of the Iranian Judiciary and Secretary of High Council for Human Rights slammed UK plan to send asylum seekers to…
Tehran committed to promotion of human rights in world
Tehran is committed to promoting human rights in the world, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said, adding that selective, political approaches will undermine…
So-called human rights advocates’ silence makes Israel brave to commit crimes
Iranian Judiciary Deputy Chief Kazem Gharibabadi said that the silence of self-claimed standard bearers of human rights has made brave the Israeli…
Gharibabadi hits back at Swedish FM for human rights allegations against Iran
Iran’s Judiciary Deputy for International Affairs and the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi on Saturday reacted to the…
Human rights have become a political tool: HR official
Iran’s Judiciary Deputy for International Affairs and the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi expressed regret that human rights…
UNGA human rights resolution lacks legal credibility: FM spox
Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement on Thursday that the resolution passed against Iran human rights record on Wednesday…
Human Rights official urges UN to deal with terrorism in Iran like It does with others
The Secretary of High Council for Human Rights in Iran has urged the UN to condemn the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen…
Western politicians’ hateful speeches ‘threat to human rights’: Iran envoy
ran’s representative at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly has warned that the recent increase in hate-mongering speeches by Western…
Iran’s parliament decries EU’s human right claims
Slamming gross human rights violations in Europe, Iran Parliament’s National Security, and Foreign Policy Commission issued a statement in reaction to the…
US imposes new Iran sanctions over alleged human rights violations
The United States on Thursday blacklisted several Iranian officials and entities over alleged gross violations of human rights, including slapping sanctions on…
#MeToo in Iran: Women break their long silence
Bourse and Bazaar | Ahmad Parhizi: Three years after the #MeToo movement spread globally, Iranian women have broken their silence on sexual…
Europeans need to learn human rights from Iran
FNA – Tehran has proved good-will by exporting coronavirus-related items to the countries complicit in anti-Iran sanctions, an official said, adding that…
US cannot legitimize policies by resorting to human rights: Iran
Press TV – Iran says inference in the domestic affairs of other countries has turned into a fundamental principle of the American…
US can’t show itself as democracy, human rights defender: spox
MNA – Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie said that the US government cannot show itself as a defender of democracy and…
‘Empty’ human rights do nothing for oppressed Muslims in Kashmir, Nigeria
MNA – Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi condemned ‘empty’ human rights’ inaction regarding oppressed people in Nigeria, Kashmir and…
Iran rejects European Parliament’s ‘Biased’ human rights resolution
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed allegations of human rights violation raised in a recent “biased, one-sided and unrealistic” resolution the European…
Iran slams West’s uacceptable practice on human rights
IRNA – Iran’s Permanent Mission in the United Nations office and other International organizations in a letter criticized West’s unacceptable practice as…
Iran’s Parliament compiles report on US human rights violations
Tasnim – The Iranian Parliament has concluded a report on the US government’s violation of human rights, both inside and outside the…
US sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela breach human rights: UN expert
Press TV – A UN rights expert has slammed unilateral US sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, saying the use of economic…
Saudis disregarding human life callously: Amnesty Int’l
IRNA – The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty ‘to crush dissent…
US dungeon of human rights: Judiciary official
IRNA – US and its allied countries are dungeons of human rights, the secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights…
No charges for US cops who shot unarmed black man 20 times
Press TV – The US police officers who fatally shot a black man holding a cellphone in California last year are facing…
United States frees American-born anchor of Iran’s Press TV
Reuters – An American-born anchor for Iran’s state-run Press TV was released after 10 days of detention in the United States as…
Press TV chief urges anchor’s release, says US contradicting claim of rights protection
Press TV – The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)’s World Service attends a news conference on the US…
Press TV anchor to reappear before jury on Wednesday
Press TV – Marzieh Hashemi, the Press TV anchorwoman who has been detained by the FBI in the United States, is slated…
Iran’s Zarif criticizes US for violating civil rights
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister in a message referred to detaining Iranian journalist Marzieh Hashemi and criticized the US administration for violating…
Iranian Leader’s top aide blasts US, Europe for ignoring human rights violation in Yemen
FNA – Iranian Supreme Leader’s top Aide for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati voiced concern about the large number of Yemeni people…
Iran most capable in human rights: Top official
IRNA – Iran is most capable in human rights; that’s why the enemy targets the country there, said the secretary of Iran’s…
European support of MKO against Security Council resolutions
IRNA – Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human rights said that the current European policies in the blatant support of the…
US promoting pattern of human rights based on arms contracts
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that American officials are promoting a new paradigm of protecting human rights based on the…
Instrumental use of human rights, intl. mechanisms denounced
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned the instrumental use of human rights and international mechanisms by some Western…
Iran attends 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights
IRNA – Hundreds of officials and scholars from 50 countries, including Iran, and regional and international organizations attended the 2018 Beijing Forum…
Iran condemns West’s double standard on human rights
MNA – Deputy head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Khosro Hakimi censured the politicizing of human rights and following double…
Iran criticizes int’l bodies approach to human rights
IRNA – Iranian judiciary chief on Monday criticized the international bodies double standard approach to human rights. Due to the fact that…
What does push Saudi Arabia to pick spat with Canada?
Alwaght – Over the past three days, the diplomatic tensions between Saudi Arabia and Canada have been making the world media headlines.…
Top judge laments west’s concerns over rights situation of Iranian protestors
IFP – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani has censured western powers for adopting double-standard policies on human rights, lamenting that…
Myanmar roundly shamed over human rights inquiry panel
Press TV – Various human rights activists and observers have roundly denounced Myanmar’s decision to appoint a commission of inquiry into widespread…