A group of independent UN human rights experts urged Iran to stop the execution of five activists who worked for the rights of the Ahwazi Arab minority in the country’s west.
Iranian authorities have advised the 1.5 million residents of Isfahan to leave the city because air pollution has reached emergency levels—while denying rumors of a nuclear leak.
Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a 49-day hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions and a travel ban imposed on her family.
Nine female political prisoners in Iran—including some deemed “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty International—have started a hunger strike in response to abuse by prison guards.
Mitt Romney utterly betrayed the Iranian protesters by portraying them as looking to the US for sponsorship and protection—playing right into Ahmadinejad’s propaganda.
Representatives for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced their concern over Iran’s recent crackdown on activists speaking out within the nation.
At angry protests over economic conditions in Tehran, slogans included “Allahu akbar!” (God is great, associated with the 1979 revolution) and “Leave Syria alone, instead think of us!”
With two US warships headed for Libya, 25 nations led by the US are converging on the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz for naval maneuvers on an unprecedented scale.
Families of murdered Iranian nuclear scientists have filed lawsuits against the US, UK and Israel for their governments' alleged involvement in the assassinations.
Regional security has been seen as the biggest challenge for the planned trans-Afghan gas pipeline—officially the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project, which would pass the war-torn Afghan provinces of Herat and Kandahar as well as Pakistan‘s restive Baluchistan province. But recent reports… Read moreChina launches bid to undermine trans-Afghan pipeline project
A US Navy ship fired at a fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing one—as Iran again threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz and the UAE opens a new pipeline that strategically bypasses the choke-point.
