Category: News
Thousands Rally Outside United Nations in New York to Denounce Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian and Support Regime Change in Iran
by OIAC | October 5, 2024 On Tuesday, September 24, 2024, thousands of Iranian Americans and their supporters from across 40 U.S. states held a large rally outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City to call on the international community to stand with the Iranian people and recognize their right to overthrow the clerical regime. The large-scale […]
Iran: Repression of women ‘intensifying’, two years on from mass protests
United Nations | September 13, 2024 The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women’s activism, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent investigators warned in an update released on Friday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran relies on a system, both in law and in practice, that […]
International Experts and Advocates Demand Accountability for the Iranian Regime’s Atrocities
Iran Focus | Mehdi Hosseini | September 2, 2024 On August 24, an international conference titled “Crimes Against Humanity: Time for Accountability and an End to Impunity” brought together former UN officials, legal experts, and human rights advocates to emphasize the necessity of justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran. The conference, which included participation from […]
Canada lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group
By Nadine Yousif | BBC News, Toronto | 6/20/2024 Canada has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, after years of pressure from opposition legislators and some members of the Iranian diaspora. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc called it a “significant tool in fighting global terrorism”. The […]
USCIRF Calls for Accountability for Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity
March 13, 2024 Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges the U.S. government to support a United Nations (UN) Security Council referral to the International Criminal Court following the finding by a panel of UN-appointed experts that Iran’s crackdowns on protests against mandatory hijab and other religious freedom violations amount to […]
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]