Khamenei is Gone, But the Regime Isn’t
The Tehran regime’s octopus may have lost its head, but its tentacles still grip the country and the region. The joint military campaign by the United States and Israel launched on February 28 has...
Islamic Revolutionary Court
US-Israeli campaign hits Iranian regime’s military and repression apparatus, regime forms leadership council (March 1 updates)
The joint US and Israeli operation entered its second day, with American forces targeting command-and-control centers, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters, air defense systems, ballistic...
Op-eds
Iran Drops the Façade of Tolerance Toward Persian Jews
Without consequences or outside pressure, the regime could revert to the same violent persecution that marked the early years of the Islamic Revolution.
Op-eds
Tehran Jails Iranian-American Jewish Man for Visiting Israel Over a Decade Ago
American Citizen Jailed by Regime: Iran imprisoned Kamran Hekmati, an elderly Iranian-American Jewish man, for traveling to Israel 13 years ago for his son’s bar mitzvah, according...
Flash Briefs
How the Iranian regime’s foreign proxies suppress Iranian protestors
It is no secret that the Islamic Republic has long sponsored proxy groups abroad, yet far less is known about how these same networks have been used to protect the regime at home. Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi...
Op-eds
Germany Shuts Down Iranian Consulates, Urges Sanctions Following Citizen’s Execution
Germany will close all three of its Iranian consulates in response to the Islamic Republic’s execution of a German-Iranian dual citizen and prominent dissident earlier this week,...
Flash Briefs
Iran Executes German-Iranian Dissident Who Lived in California
Tehran executed Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian dual national who lived in Los Angeles for some two decades, Iranian state media reported on October 28. Iranian security forces...
Flash Briefs
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...
Op-eds
26 Human Rights Groups Denounce Iran’s Death Sentence Against Prominent Activist
Iran must rescind its death sentence against Kurdish women’s rights activist and social worker Pakhshan Azizi, a group of 26 human rights organizations said in a joint statement...
Flash Briefs
Prominent Iranian Film Director Flees Iran Following Prison Sentencing
Renowned Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof fled to Europe after a Tehran court sentenced him to eight years in prison, he announced on May 13. The sentence, which also included...
Flash Briefs
Iran Executes Four Men Falsely Accused of Mossad Ties
Iran on January 29 hanged four prisoners accused of planning to sabotage a Defense Ministry factory and having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Iranian state media...
Flash Briefs
Sanctioned Former Prosecutor-General Chosen to Lead Iran’s Supreme Court
Iranian media announced the appointment of Mohammad Jafar Montazeri to the position of the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Iran on August 6. Montazeri, who has served as prosecutor-general of Iran...
Flash Briefs
Iran Begins Trials of Two Female Journalists
An Iranian court this week began the trials of two female journalists whose work brought to light the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September 2022, sparking nationwide anti-regime protests that...
Flash Briefs
German Appeasement Of Khamenei Endangers Iranians And The World
Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with...
Op-eds
Torture TV
The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media
Monographs
European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses
Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...
Op-eds
U.S. Vice President Pence demands Iran release Christian sentenced to prison
‘Whether Sunni, Sufi, Baha’i, Jewish or Christian, America will stand up for people of faith’
Op-eds
Iranian environmentalists on trial: Tehran’s latest miscarriage of justice unusually self-defeating
Excerpt “If you were being threatened with a needle of hallucinogenic drugs [hovering] above your arm, you would also confess to whatever they wanted you to confess.” So ...
Op-eds
U.S. Urges Iran to Release Women’s Rights Activist on Hunger Strike
The State Department on Friday called on Iran to release women’s rights activist Farhad Meysami immediately, noting that his “lif...
Policy Briefs
Profiles of Iranian Repression
Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic