The Baha’i International Community issued a report Monday, which charged Iran with failing to meet its own pledges on human rights. The document lists 34 broken commitments, and was presented at a news conference in Geneva. “Iran has utterly failed in every case to fulfill the commitments it made to improve human rights in...

On Wednesday, Tehran’s legal authorities sentenced the six stars of a lip-synced dance video cover of Pharrell William’s song “Happy” to jail time and 91 lashes each. The Telegraph reports: Authorities arrested the group for contravening Iran’s strict vulgarity laws, which prohibit public displays of dancing, and paraded the six on state television,...

While the world focuses on ISIS and its terror threat, as far as Israel is concerned the Iranian nuclear program is the main concern, according to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz. “The Iranians continue in their insistence now as they did under Ahmadinejad, to retain most of the centrifuges...

The Associated Press reported on Friday that evidence disclosed since the end of this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas indicated that the Palestinian terror group had deliberately used civilians as human shields while launching rockets at Israeli civilians, and that even Hamas officials now admitted they had embraced the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other prominent German political and religious leaders attended a rally in Berlin this weekend to show their support for the country’s Jewish minority and to express zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. “That people in Germany are threatened and abused because of their appearance or their support...

UN Watch reported Friday that William Schabas, recently appointed head of a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission to investigate Israel, once attempted to disqualify three judges who convicted him with “violating human rights and freedom” by accusing them of bias. In 1974, when Schabas was a Ph.D. student in...