Judiciary official: Review of capital punishment law to be addressed soon
TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) – Head of Supreme Human Rights Council of Iran has told a Brazilian daily the Council will come to a definitive results in review of capital punishment for major drug smuggling...
View ArticleUN rights report politically-motivated, biased: Iran
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed as “politically-motivated” a recent report by the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic. “The report which...
View ArticleEU claims on Iran human rights ‘irrelevant’
MNA– Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said Iran welcomes negotiations with the EU to bring positions closer in many different issues. Mr. Bahram Ghasemi told reporters on Monday evening that Iran and...
View ArticleUN human rights resolution politically-motivated: Iran
Press TV- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected as politically-motivated and spiteful a recent UN General Assembly resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran. “The...
View ArticleOfficial: US unqualified to criticize Iran’s human rights status
FNA- Deputy Head of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters for International Affairs Kazzem Qaribabadi blasted the western countries, specially the US, for violating the human rights in the Middle East, and...
View ArticleFM rejects UN Iran human rights report
MNA– Foreign Ministry spokesperson has denounced the UN’s Iran human rights report as ‘unfair and politically motivated.’ Ms. Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani lawyer replaced Ahmed Shaheed earlier in 2016 as...
View ArticleEU extends sanctions on Iran over human rights claims
Press TV – The European Union has extended by another year sanctions against Iran over alleged claims of “human rights violations” despite the fledgling rapprochement between Tehran and the bloc since...
View ArticleSenate passes measure to expand sanctions on Iran and Russia
CBS News – The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation that would impose new U.S. sanctions that would target Iran’s ballistic missile program, human rights violations, and yet it would...
View Article45 foreign ambassadors tour Tehran’s Evin prison
IFP – The Iranian Judiciary has taken dozens of foreign ambassadors residing in Tehran to a tour of Evin Prison to prove that the allegations raised against Iranian prisons are wrong and...
View ArticleHR official: Iran’s fight on drugs instance of respecting human rights
IRNA – An Iranian high rank official said Tehran’s combating on drugs trafficking is “an instance of respecting human rights”. “The amount of narcotic drugs discovered only in Iran is as much as...
View ArticleJudiciary Chief refutes UN report on human rights situation in Iran
RNA – Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeqh Amoli Larijani said on Monday that the special report issued by the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran is mixture of fabricated claims...
View ArticleIran dismisses UN human rights report as politically-motivated
Tasnim – Tehran does not recognize a new report the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran is going to submit to the UN General Assembly Third Committee, Iran’s Foreign Ministry...
View ArticleIran’s HR chief: Human Rights ‘no imported commodity’ in Iran
MNA– Head of Iran’s High Council of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijiani said human rights is not an “imported commodity” in Iran, rather it is founded on “Islamic rationality”. Head of High Council...
View ArticleHuman rights report on Iran influenced by political games: UN envoy
IRNA – Iranian envoy at the UN said that his doesn’t accept the report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights on Iran because she used inauthentic sources and unrealistic cases. He said that Asma...
View ArticleIran dismisses UN anti-Iran human rights report as ‘lopsided’, ‘illegitimate’
IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi criticized an anti-Iran report by UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Asma Jahangir, saying that the report is lopsided, illegitimate and...
View ArticleIran human rights commitments stemming from Constitution: Senior official
IRNA – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said the country’s attempt to uphold human rights have their roots in the basic principles and obligations stipulated in the...
View ArticleHuman rights of strategic value for Iran: Zarif
MNA –The Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif believes that the elements of power have changed in the world of today and human rights is one of the factors influencing power equations in the world of today....
View ArticleIran rejects UN reports on Iran human rights situation as biased
IRNA – Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said on Saturday that anti-Iran reports by UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran are unfair and biased. Noting that such reports lack true...
View ArticleUpholders of human rights support terrorist MKO
MNA – Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Council said that Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) that has received asylum from France is today supported by the upholders of human...
View ArticleHuman rights report on Iran influenced by political games: UN envoy
IRNA – Iranian envoy at the UN said that his doesn’t accept the report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights on Iran because she used inauthentic sources and unrealistic cases. He said that Asma...
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