Press TV - The United Nations human rights office has condemned the latest verdict on Nabeel Rajab as "continued suppression of government critics," urging Bahrain to release the prominent human rights activist. The Court of Cassation, whose verdicts are final, on December 31 rejected Rajabs appeal and upheld his prison sentence over tweets deemed ...

IRNA - Iran's representative to the Third Committee of the United Nations says the UN human rights mechanisms are politicized and based on double standard. 'The report A/73/299 yet again brings to light manipulation and politicization that exists in the UN human rights mechanisms. Producing annually four nearly identical reports on the situation of ...

IRNA Iran's judiciary chief described the UN secretary general's human rights reports as 'fabricated' and 'baseless'. The UN secretary general should not become the spokesman of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and other anti-revolution opposition groups who are in exile outside Iran, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said in a local ceremony on Monday....

Press TV- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned a UN resolution on the state of human rights in Iran as unacceptable and baseless. On Tuesday, Qassemi stressed that the resolution, which was presented to the 71st UN General Assembly by Canada, is politically motivated. Unfortunately this resolution was compiled and ...

Moscow and Tehran are concerned about the politicization of the UN human rights agenda and attempts to use human rights in order to interfere in the countries' internal affairs, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) According tothe ministry, the Russian-Iranian consultations onHuman Rights were held inIran onDecember ...

A senior Iranian official has questioned the legality of appointment ofa UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, calling on Ahmed Shaheed, the current rights investigator on the Islamic Republic, to resign. Appointing a special rapporteur on Iran requires some justification, Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham called the recent report by the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, far from reality and stressed that the report lacks legal basis.   "The report is one-sided and far from reality and has been produced without observing regulations relating to the ...

UN human rights investigators have for the first time blamed foreign-backed militants operating in Syria for crimes against humanity. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, head of the Geneva-based UN commission of inquiry on Syria, said in a Wednesday statement that the UN Security Council bears responsibility for not addressing accountability and allowing the warring ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Will Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors John Lesnewich and Mehrdad Moarefian. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Amoli Larijani decried a recent western-sponsored UN resolution on the status of human rights in Iran, saying such moves stem from the fundamental rift between the West and the Islamic world. Speaking in a meeting with high-ranking Iranian judiciary officials on Wednesday, Larijani ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, discussing the global approach toward human rights. During the meeting in New York on Monday, the Iranian foreign minister said there should be a change in the current global approach toward the issue of human rights. Zarif stressed the necessity ...