Shirin Ebadi

March 7, 2020 | |

Torture TV: New FDD Report Makes the Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media

New Report Chronicles State TV’s Forced Confessions

July 11, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg

U.S. Should Re-impose Sanctions on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

President Trump this week must decide whether the State Department will continue waiving congressional sanctions against the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the primary pr...

May 4, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg

The United States Should Seize on Iran’s Currency Crisis

While the debate over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and U.S. military strategy in Syria rages in Washington, policymakers cannot afford to miss the historic events unfolding inside Iran.&nb...

April 12, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Should Sanction Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)

In an interview last week with Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi...

April 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall

Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo...

May 26, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Iran’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities Doesn’t Bode Well For Nuclear Deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure has been marked by intensified persecution and incarceration of Baha’is, Jews, Christians and Sunni Muslims, according to a new report from t...

December 1, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Europe retreats from pressing Iran on human rights progress

Since the world powers reached an interim agreement to slow down Iran’s nuclear weapons program last year, there has been an astonishingly fast-paced change by some European countries and i...

November 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran: Still Hostile to Gays

Co-authored by Stuart Appelbaum The expectation that the election of new Iranian President Hass...

June 13, 2011 | Joshua Goodman World Defense Review |

Re-Thinking Iran Policy

By Joshua Goodman The January 31 cover of The Economist asked an ominous question, "Has Iran Won?" The question certainly has merit. The release of the National Intelli...

April 27, 2010 |

Statement by FDD Executive Director Mark Dubowitz in advance of appearances today by Nobel Peace Pri

Washington, D.C. (April 27, 2010) – Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, issued the following statement in advance of appearances today by Nobel Peace Prize...