A group of 53 Iranian dissidents wrote a letter, published Friday by The Daily Beast, outlining their opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran and arguing that the agreement’s failure to hold Tehran accountable for its human rights abuses, both domestic and international, will only empower the Islamic regime and...

Companies and nations considering making an “unseemly rush” to open commercial ties with Iran in the wake of last month’s nuclear deal should take note of the ordeal of detained Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian before commencing business with the Islamic Republic, an editorial in the Post warned today. Iran is No. 130 out of 189...

The nuclear deal with Iran will empower a regime that has killed an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians since 1979 and enable the increased persecution of sexual minorities in the Islamic Republic, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published...

The State Department issued an advisory warning Americans not to visit Iran due to the threat of detention and imprisonment on false charges, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “This deal over Iran’s nuclear program does not alter the United States’s assessment of the risks of travel to Iran for...

Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, criticized Iran for sentencing Mohammed Ali Taheri, the founder of alternative medicine movements in Iran, to death for the crime of “corruption on earth.”Al-Hussein made his comments in a press release issued today. “Iran’s use of the death penalty has long...

Iran has launched a campaign to discredit Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, featuring coordinated media coverage of fabricated documents, The Guardian reported Sunday. Iran has launched a sophisticated smear campaign against the UN special rapporteur investigating its human rights violations by widely spreading...