Iran

Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met with the heads of the three branches of government and a group of officials of the Islamic Republic on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

Iran court orders US to pay billions in damages to 2017 Tehran terror attack victims

A court in Tehran has ruled that the United States must pay millions of dollars in damages to the families of the victims of two simultaneous terrorist attacks on Iran’s Parliament and the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Kh...

UNSC silence leaves Palestinians in ongoing suffering: Iran envoy

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Amir-Saeed Iravani, said, "It is regrettable that the Security Council has remained silent, rendering UN resolutions ineffective and leaving the Palestinian people to suffer ongoing at...

Iran ranks in top ten future science and technology superpowers: Report

Iran stands among the top ten science and technology superpowers, ranking higher than Japan, according to a new report published by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

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.