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The United States “must deal with the insanity at the center of the Human Rights Council — persistent and egregious anti-Israel bias,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft declared last...
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday appointed Javaid Rehman, a British-Pakistani...
Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, is 13 months into a 19-year sentence in...
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) this week, the Iranian regime continues to repress its p...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is energetically trying to legitimize its financial sector despite a decades-long rap sheet of illicit financial activities. Since the conclusion of the nuclear deal,...
Thank you, Chair and Honourable Senators for inviting me here today. I commend this committee for turning its attention to the promotion of human rights abroad. Multiculturalism, which according...
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Introduction: Chairman Munson, members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before this distinguished committee. I applaud the Canadian Parliament for t...
President Rouhani has gone to great lengths to try to put a human face on the Islamic Republic’s regime. He has failed. “The human rights situation in the country remai...
It’s not only at the nuclear talks that Iran is goose-stepping right over those polite U.S. diplomats to grab all it can get. At the United Nations, Iran has just w...
In December 2010, a Tunisian fruit-stand vendor set himself ablaze to protest the arbitrary closure of his business. Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide sparked an upheaval in Tunisia that...
President Hassan Rouhani has not delivered on his pledge to loosen the vice on personal freedoms in Iran’s largely closed society. Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations speci...
The Obama administration’s foreign policy provides a kind of porcelain alliance for America’s allies across the world. Three telling cases in point over the last week brought things t...
BERLIN – The award of this week’s Nobel Peace Prize to Taliban victim...
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Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to share my analysis with you. Allow me in particular to express my gratitude to this subcommittee for raising the twin issues of the Islamic Republic’s use of terror against its own citizens, and the regime’s sponsorship of international terrorism.
In a recent public spat with his domestic political opponents, Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani rebuked conservatives for their continued efforts to impose morality by force. Western media h...
Iran’s jingoistic expansionism in Syria and Iraq, along with a deepening economic meltdown, may contribute to the demise of the Islamic Republic, according to Saad Mehio, editorial manager...