Iran

On the occasion of the 13 th of Aban (4 November), the High Council for Human Rights issued a statement emphasizing that this day serves as a reminder of the fundamental truth that freedom and human dignity are not privileges to be granted by global ...

UN official lauds Iran for keeping doors open to Afghan refugees

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, hailed Iran for generously sheltering millions of violence-stricken asylum seekers and refugees from neighboring Afghanistan in spite of the worl...

Iran UN ambassador: US unilateral actions violate UN Charter, threaten multilateralism

Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations says unilateral measures taken by the United States are against the UN Charter while threatening multilateralism in the world.

In retaliatory move, Iran imposes sanctions on EU, British individuals, entities

Iran has imposed sanctions on more than 20 individuals and entities from the European Union and the United Kingdom, after the bloc and London imposed a fresh round of sanctions targeting Iranian officials and organizations.

Leader pardons over 1,700 more prisoners

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei agreed to pardon or commute the sentences of over 1,700 inmates upon a request by Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje’i on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the...

Downing Ukrainian plane in Jan 2020 was human error, not system malfunction

Head of the Tehran Judiciary Organization of the Armed Forces Ali Eftekhari says that Iran's air defense system was not defective when it downed a Ukrainian plane in January 2020, adding that the tragedy occurred due to a human error.

Iranian court sentences 10 military personnel to prison over Ukraine plane downing

A court in Tehran convicted as many as 10 Iranian military staff for their involvement in the misfiring at a Ukrainian passenger airplane in the skies over the capital in January 2020.

HCHR examines Key Measures to Support Prisoners and their Families

The report on measures taken in support of prisoners and their families during March 2021 to December 2022 was published by the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran on March 2023.

Iran strongly denounces desecration of Quran in Denmark

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Saturday strongly condemned a new act of desecration against Islam’s holy book, Quran, in Denmark.

Judiciary official: 90k prisoners pardoned under Iranian Supreme Leader amnesty decree

Deputy Head of the Iranian Judiciary Sadeq Rahimi said that nearly 90,000 prisoners have been pardoned at the order of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei issued two month ago.

Iran lashes out at West for keeping mum on Israeli crimes aagainst Palestinians

The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement ahead of the International Quds Day, and said that the US and certain European states have become the major supporters of terrorism through their shameful silence over the Zionist regime's crimes ag...