Baháʼí Faith

October 21, 2024 | |

Iran Sentences 10 Women From Baha’i Religious Minority to Lengthy Prison Terms

Iran’s judiciary sentenced 10 women belonging to the beleaguered Baha’i religious minority to a combined total of 90 years in prison, Iran International reported on October 21....

September 27, 2024 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Brutal Judge Iman Afshari

The death sentences keep coming from Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In July, the court’s presiding judge, Iman Afshari, pronounced the dreaded verdict for Pakhshan Azizi, a prominent...

June 18, 2024 | |

Hezbollah Threatens Haifa During U.S. Envoy’s Diplomatic Mission

Hezbollah aired a video secretly taken by one of its drones over Israel’s strategic port of Haifa on June 18 as a U.S. envoy pressed Beirut to rein in the Lebanese terrorist group. The...

May 21, 2024 | |

Jewish Man Facing Execution Under Iran’s Apartheid Laws Targeting Minorities

The U.S. government expressed “deep concern” on May 20 regarding the imminent execution of a young Jewish man in Iran convicted of killing a Muslim during a violent quarrel over...

May 3, 2024 | |

Executions Surge in Iran as Protests Persist

Executions in Iran are surging. The Islamic Republic executed 63 people in the last two weeks of April, bringing the total number in 2024 to 175, the Norway-based nonprofit Iran...

November 21, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The unmaking of the United Nations

How the U.N. became the handmaiden of terrorists

November 15, 2023 | |

Iran’s Repression of Baha’is Condemned by U.S. Agency

A key U.S. agency condemned Iran on November 15 for its resurgent persecution of the Baha’is, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. The U.S. Commission on International...

October 14, 2023 | |

IDF Strikes Terrorists as Rocket Sirens Continue to Wail Across Israel

Rocket sirens continued to wail across Israel on October 14 as Hamas and other Iran-backed terrorist organizations surrounding Israel launched further attacks from Gaza, the West...

August 18, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz, Saeed Ghasseminejad

The Republic of Fatwas

Last week, a Shiite American of Lebanese origin, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, attempted to murder the Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie. Matar’s social media posts display staunch support...

August 3, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Facing failure in Lebanon

Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy

July 30, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘Securing India against China should matter to the world’

‘One of the things it comes down to is the CCP attempting to get rid of any entity that could be a threat to them, and I think India right now is one of the biggest threats that they face,’ says Se Hoon Kim.

March 16, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden’s EIKO Sanctions Concession Is a Gift to the Ayatollahs

Lifting sanctions on EIKO will not advance Joe Biden’s purported goal of a nuclear détente with Tehran.

February 9, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Amnesty spreads the virus of antisemitism

It defames, demonizes, and attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state

November 15, 2021 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Professor At US College Complicit In Crimes Against Humanity

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the UN, is complicit in crimes against humanity by using his position as an Iranian diplomat to cover up the 1988 executions of 5,000 dissidents in...

August 4, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

An open letter to Ben and Jerry

Men of ice cream, men of unjust deserts

June 9, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US-based Iranian professor under fire for hiding facts about 1988 massacre

Several activists and human rights organizations have launched a campaign against Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations who now serves as a professor at Oberlin College...

May 5, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Human Rights Watch crosses a threshold

Its latest attack on Israel goes beyond antisemitism.

May 5, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Authoritarian countries will try to use coronavirus vaccines as an internal cudgel

The world will have to work to keep distribution of scarce lifesaving resources equitable

April 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

An Oberlin Professor Is Under Fire for His Past

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran's former ambassador to the U.N., has been accused of trying to cover up a 1988 massacre of political prisoners.

March 8, 2021 | Sharon Nazarian, Aykan Erdemir

The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.

Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...