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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.

UN chief deplores contemporary slavery, saying still 40m victims

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day for Abolition of Slavery, December 2, 2020 said that over 40 million people are still victims of contemporary slavery of whom 71 percent are women and girls.

UN humanitarian office puts Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’

Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen’s war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a conflict that has ravaged Yemen’s economy and created the...

HR chief: How is Fakhrizade assassination justified by CFT domestic supporters?

On a radio interview broadcast on Tuesday, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights discussed different aspects of martyred Mohsen Fakhrizade assassination and said that such assassinations have been executed several times by the Zionist regime...

Palestinian student released from Israeli jail after 15 months

Mays Abu Ghosh, a 22-year-old Palestinian student, was released by Israeli forces on Monday, 15 months after she was arrested.

International Seminar in Vienna condemns US unlawful sanctions

International Seminar in Vienna condemned the US unlawful Unilateral Coercive Measures, saying the US violates sovereignty of states in contravention of Charter of the United Nations and should be revoked, especially in current critical situation the...

Victim of Sardasht chemical warfare demands UN chief to bring to justice perpetrators

Farideh Shafei, the victim of the 1987 Sardasht chemical attack in a letter to Secretary General of United Nations António Guterres called for bringing to justice perpetrators of the chemical warfare.

States who do not denounce terrorism have interests in it: HR official

On a radio interview broadcast on Monday, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights said that western countries led by the US assess every incident based on their interests and that is the reason why they have not condemned the assassination of ...

Iran says IAEA should fulfill responsibility to condemn terrorist attack against Fakhrizade

Iran's Ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations Kazem Gharibabadi says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should fulfill responsibility to condemn terrorist attack against Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

China deplores terrorist attack against Iranian scientist

China Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Monday condemned terrorist attack to assassinate Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iranian MP: Clues found on Israeli role in Fakhrizade assassination

The spokesman for the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says there is some evidence that the Israeli regime is behind the assassination of Fakhrizadeh.