Iran will not succumb to external pressure, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Monday, emphasizing the country ...

This marks a 17% increase year-on-year and the highest number in over 20 years. "The death penalty serves as the basis for many human rights violations in Iran," Mahmud Amiri-Moghaddam, head of the ...

The reduction in funding for Iranian groups, based largely outside Iran, is affecting the work of human rights monitors, news ...

An Iranian Foreign Ministry official condemned the sanctions imposed by the Canadian government on several Iranian ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR ...

Sabeti in the 1970s served as the deputy head of SAVAK, the feared security and intelligence service of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has obtained a copy of ...

Human Rights Watch said today. Azeris are the largest ethnic minority in Iran. The Tehran appeals court, Branch 36, has upheld harsh prison sentences for 10 Azeri activists issued by Judge ...

A prosecutor has told jurors that two defendants were hired guns for the government of Iran in a plot to assassinate an ...

Two suspects are facing trial in New York on Monday after being charged in a thwarted plot to kill Iranian-American ...