Democratic and Republican lawmakers from both the Senate and the House of Representatives have called on the Obama administration to take action against Iran in light of its ballistic missile launches, which are in violation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2231. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who voted for...

Iranian civil life has been marked by an increase in executions, a “widening crackdown” on freedoms, the disqualification of thousands of candidates for public office, and ongoing discrimination against minorities and women, the UN’s investigator into the human rights situation in Iran reported Thursday. UN rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed’s report (.pdf) covered executions, freedom of expression,...

Following this week’s ballistic missiles tests by Iran, which came after President Hassan Rouhani ordered his military to step the development of the weapons, an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal observed that “moderation, Iranian-style, is relative.” “Tehran’s show of force—it also tested missiles on Tuesday—are not the work...

A day after Iran announced that it tested a number of ballistic missiles across the country, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council ban, the Islamic Republic launched two more missiles marked with the threat “Israel must be wiped off the Earth” in Hebrew, CNN reported on Wednesday. The missiles, which are capable of...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had test-launched several ballistic missiles at sites across the country on Tuesday, the third time that it has violated UN Security Council bans on such tests in five months. “Our main enemies are imposing new sanctions on Iran to weaken our missile capabilities…but they...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah warned that fighting during a future war with Israel “will reach the Galilee,” Israel Hayom reported on Sunday, citing Foreign Policy. “In the next war, Hezbollah won’t stay on the borders, and the Israeli settlements in the north will not be protected from this,” said a...