Tasnim Chairman of Irans Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the wave of popular protests in the US has revealed the Washington governments true face. The Americans have for years lectured other countries on human rights and now it has been revealed for the whole world that (the issue of) human rights for the US is nothing but ...

Press TV- An imprisoned Kenyan student has eventually been granted a trial against two US immigration officers, after newly released footageshows the officers violently attacking him for refusing to be fingerprinted at a Kansas jail three years ago. International college student Justine Mochama filed a lawsuit back in 2014, accusing two agents ...

A court in the US state of Louisiana has released a video showing law enforcement officers fatally shooting a 6-year-old autistic boy last November. The tape shows two deputy city marshals opening fire on a car, killing the boy and critically wounding his father in the city of Marksville. JeremyMardis, who had autism,died at the scene from multiple ...

A white Memphis police officer, who fatally shot an African-American man, will not face federal civil rights criminal charges, a prosecutor says. On July 17, 2015, Officer Connor Schilling shot and killed 19-year-old Darrius Stewart after he engaged in a confrontationwith the officer. Schilling stopped a car for a broken headlight, issued ...

With Iran and the US at a critical point in nuclear talks, the Supreme Leaders office has attacked on another front, accusing Washington of legalized killing and torture. Ayatollah Khamaneis staff fired the volley on Twitter on Saturday afternoon, trying to link issues such as the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and women in American prisons:...

[caption id="attachment_151991" align="alignright" width="152"] Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani meets scholars and academics in the western province of Lorestan on February 19, 2015.[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani slammed the US administration for its record in violating human ...

[caption id="attachment_108570" align="alignright" width="164"] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham described Saturdays statement issued by US State Department spokesperson as an example of interference in Irans domestic affairs. Afkam said the statement ...

At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies quietly deployed radars that let them effectively see inside homes, with little notice to the courts or the public. WASHINGTON At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone ...

Americas Martin Luther King Day was embraced by the Supreme Leader on Monday. However, far from marking the occasion by heralding the work and ideas of King or the development in civil rights in the 1960s, Ayatollah Khameneis Twitter account put out a more downbeat message: Khamenei.ir@khamenei_ir Follow Many years have passed since equality ...

[caption id="attachment_146393" align="alignright" width="151"] The official account of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, ?@khamenei_ir, tweets on the occasion of Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 19, 2015.[/caption] The official account of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, ?@khamenei_ir, has ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Global Center to Support Human Rights in Iran Ahmad Esfandiary announced that the country is due to release separate reports on human rights violations in the US and Britain in coming days. "The violators of human rights use it as a pressure tool against others at high levels and every where they see their interests endangered,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian legislator lambasted the US for violating the rights of its citizens, and said that the American society's problems are the result of apartheid and discriminatory polices in that country. His remarks came after the the US clampdown on the Black community protests against the killing of community members, and the US ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key Takeaway:University of Tehran hosts panel ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker slammed the United Nations inaction on the violation of human rights in the United States, after Senate unveiled details of torture program at the CIA. Referring to the recent US Senate report released on CIA tortures, Evaz Heidarpour, member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy ...

[caption id="attachment_137843" align="alignright" width="200"] The US society is marred by racial discrimination.[/caption] A top Iranian cleric has taken a swipe at the United States for race discrimination practiced in the country, urging Washington to revisit its approach in dealing with people of color. How longer are you (the US) going to continue ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani called on the US administration to stop crimes against the Americans and other nations, and learn to respect the human rights. "We hope that this anti-human rights situation will end in the US although they are unlikely to stop their tragic acts and behavior towards the innocent people ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the International Human Rights Center in Iran Ahmad Esfandiari said his center has sent a letter to the UN to dispatch independent rapporteurs to the US to investigate the numerous human rights violations in the country. "We have sent a letter to the UN to ask them to provide the ground for the presence of the center's independent ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:Jafari dismissed reports of ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran-US talks satisfactory: Iranian negotiator A top Iranian nuclear negotiator has expressed satisfaction with the general atmosphere of the ongoing negotiations between representatives of the Islamic Republic and the United States over Irans nuclear program.   Iran strongly ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani strongly criticized human rights conditions in the United States and condemned the recent killings of African-Americans by the US police. Amoli Larijani pointed to the reports that (at least) one African-American is killed every day in the US, and lashed out at the American legal ...