President Ebrahim Raisi, in his speech at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, US, said that Iran regards double standard policies exercised by some states in the world as the source of violation of human rights. Iran regards double standard policies exercised by some states in the world as the source of violation of human ...

Irans ambassador and permanent representative to United Nations in an address to the UN Security Council (UNSC) said on Monday in New York: Protection of children, particularly girls, in armed conflicts is a fundamental moral and humanitarian principle and every effort must be made to ensure that it is fully respected by all parties in all conflicts....

Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned the Italian ambassador to Tehran whose country represents Canadas interests in Iran to protest at Ottawas violation of the rights of the Iranian nationals residing in Canada. The Iranian foreign ministrys director-general for America's affairs during the meeting strongly criticized the deprivation of ...

American Herald Tribune | Marwa Osman: The country is a monarchy with a legal system based on Islamic law (Shari'a). Islam is the official religion, and the law requires that all citizens be Muslims. The Government does not provide legal protection for freedom of religion, and such protection does not exist in practice. The public practice of non-Muslim ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei predicted that the West would think up more excuses, other than the nuclear issue, to put pressure on Iran in the future, including by making allegations of human rights violation. "Regarding our issues with the US, the West and Zionism, we predict further successive ...

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for insulting Wahhabism, says his ordeal was merely because of an expression of opinion. All this cruel suffering happened to me because I expressed my opinion, Badawi said in his first letter from prison since he was jailed in 2012. The Saudi blogger received ...

What country deserves more condemnation for violating human rights than any other nation on earth? According to the U.N.s top human rights body, that would be Israel. Last week, Israel was the U.N.s number one womens rights violator. This week it is the U.N.s all-round human rights villain. The U.N. Human Rights Council wrapped up its latest ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The second report on Britains human rights violations was released in a ceremony in Tehran on Monday. The report, enumerating different cases of human rights violation in England in 2013 and 2014, was released in a ceremony held in Tehran University's Sheikh Ansari Hall. Saeed Jalili, member of Irans Expediency Council, delivered ...

The flogging of Saudi bloggerRaif Badawihas not gone ahead after medics advised his punishment be postponed for a second week, Amnesty International has confirmed. On Thursday, Amnesty said a committee of eight doctors carried out a series of tests on the father-of-three and recommended he was not publicly flogged again today. Mr Badawi had been ...

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,...

A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said. The witness said Raif Badawis feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani lashed out at the US and other western states for their biased policies towards human rights issues in different world countries, and said the West's allegations about violation of women's rights in Iran is sheer lie and propaganda. "Women in Iran can have different (governmental) posts ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for Human Rights Day, urged States to respect their commitments over protecting human rights all the time. In his message, Ban Ki-moon emphasized on protection of human rights as an obligation for all countries and people in all times regardless of their origin, race,...

Speaking at the conclusion of the third round of nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the 5+1 Powers on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that sufficient and serious resolve is needed for a final deal. The Islamic Republic and the 5+1 (US, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) agreed to resume discussions on ...

The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran, in particular those of 10 March 2011 on the EUs approach towards Iran, of 17 November 2011 on recent cases of human rights violations in Iran, of 2 February 2012 on Iran and its nuclear programme and of 14 June 2012 on the situation of ethnic minorities in Iran, having ...

[caption id="attachment_36292" align="alignright" width="210"] Bahrainis hold an anti-regime protest in a suburb of Manama, June 15, 2013.[/caption] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has called on the United States and other Western allies of the Bahraini regime to pressure Manama into releasing all political prisoners. The human rights group said ...

Often viewed as hopelessly divided, Iranian-Americans are united in wanting the US government to expend more effort promoting democracy and human rights in Iran, but do not want the US to try to overthrow Irans government or strike its nuclear facilities, according to a new poll. Thesurvey, released Thursday, April 18, was commissioned by thePublic ...

Foreign ministers of 27 EU states have imposed fresh sanctions against Iran. After a two-day meeting in Brussels ended, the European Union leaders agreed to impose sanctions on 17 Iranian officials; it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. The new names have extended the list to a total of 78 Iranians who are subject to asset ...