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Iran: Institutional discrimination against women and girls enabled human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the context of recent protests, UN Fact-Finding Mission says

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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 […]

‘Iranian cyber army’ blamed as Wikipedia deletes atrocities

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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 […]

Iran Conducting Influence Operations in the Biden Administration

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National Review     |     By DAVID ZIMMERMANN     |     November 14, 2023 Iran has been conducting covert influence operations for years in the U.S. and abroad as part of a concerted disinformation campaign that is suspected to be espionage, a congressional briefing and corresponding report revealed Tuesday. The 82-page report, titled “Iran: The Ayatollah’s Hidden Hand,” details how […]

Inside Iran’s Influence Operation

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Semafor     |     Jay Solomon     |     Sept. 29, 2023 THE SCOOP In the spring of 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials initiated a quiet effort to bolster Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues — particularly its nuclear program — by building ties with a network of influential overseas academics and researchers. They called it […]

Iran: Compulsory veiling bill a despicable assault on rights of women and girls

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Amnesty International     |     September 21, 2023 Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing  prison terms and fines for defying Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the […]

Biden admin walks tightrope amid Albanian police raid on Iranian dissidents that killed one, injured dozens

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State Department says it has been ‘assured’ Albanian government did not violate any human rights By Caitlin McFall    |   Fox News     |     6/20/2023 The State Department has found itself in a precarious position after dozens of Iranian dissidents seeking safe haven in Albania were reportedly injured Tuesday and one allegedly killed in a camp raid by state […]

Stop the Execution Spree in Iran

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Amnesty International     |     June 1, 2023 The Iranian authorities are carrying out a horrific state-sanctioned killing spree under the guise of judicial executions. Those executed include people convicted of drug-related offences, protesters, political dissidents, and members of oppressed ethnic minorities. Call for states to urgently intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all executions […]

Panic spreads in Iran after new suspected poison attacks on girls schools

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The Washington Post     |     Babak Dehghanpisheh     |      April 26, 2023 It was 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday when the teacher began receiving frantic calls. There had been a gas attack on the girls elementary school where she taught, in the Kurdish region of western Iran. She had not been in class that April morning but […]

Child detainees in Iran subjected to flogging, Shocks and sexual violence

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CHILD DETAINEES IN IRAN SUBJECTED TO FLOGGING, ELECTRIC SHOCKS AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN BRUTAL PROTEST CRACKDOWN Amnesty International     |     March 16, 2023 Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement […]

Bipartisan House Resolution Endorses a Republic in Iran

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Bipartisan House Resolution Rejects Monarchic, Religious Dictatorship, Endorses a Republic in Iran Townhall     |     Majid Rafizadeh     |     Feb 15, 2023 As we marked the 44th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, we were reminded of the transformative power of people’s movements to bring about change. The overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and the establishment […]
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