UN Iran Expert Concerned About Death Sentences for Protesters
By Emma Farge
GENEVA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A U.N.-appointed independent expert on Iran voiced concern on Tuesday that the repression of protesters was intensifying, with authorities launching a "campaign" of sentencing them to death.
The U.N. says more than...
Trump’s Iran Sanctions Resolve Faces Test from Oil-Thirsty China, India
By Timothy Gardner, Humeyra Pamuk and Henning Gloystein
WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in May he would reimpose sanctions on Iran, the State Department began telling countries around...
Iranian Bahá’ís Are Being Targeted After Israel Attack, UK Official Says
By Natasha Phillips
Kumar Iyer, the U.K.’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, has told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council that the Bahá’í community in Iran are among several minority...
Iran Court Sentences Two to Death Over Deadly Shrine Attack
DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has handed out death sentences to two men over an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 people in October and was claimed by the...
Award-Winning Film Director Panahi to Serve Decade-Old Jail Term
DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi will serve a six-year prison sentence originally issued by a Tehran court in 2010, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, amid a stepped-up crackdown on dissent...
Iran’s Central Bank Chief Says Ratifying or Rejecting FATF Has No Impact on Currency...
By Reza Hamidi
The Governor of the Islamic Republic of Iran Central Bank Abdolnaser Hemmati has said that ratifying or rejecting the two remaining articles of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will not impact...
World Court Orders U.S. to Ensure Iran Sanctions Don’t Hit Humanitarian Aid
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE Oct 3 (Reuters) - The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to ensure that sanctions against Iran, due to be tightened next month, do not affect...
European Refiners Winding Down Purchases of Iranian Oil
By Ron Bousso, Amanda Cooper and Shadia Nasralla
LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) - European refiners are winding down oil purchases from Iran, closing the door on a fifth of the OPEC member's crude exports after...
INTERVIEW: Economist Hassan Mansoor Analyzes Iran’s ‘Productivity Plan’
By Kayhan Life Staff
The government of President Ebrahim Raisi recently announced its intentions to continue the implementation of the “Productivity Plan” aimed at generating revenue for the government by selling unused assets, including state-owned...
EU Calls for UN To Probe Iran Schoolgirl Poisonings
BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - European lawmakers called on the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday to conduct an independent investigation into a wave of poisonings that have hit schoolgirls in Iran.
Over 1,000 schoolgirls have fallen ill...
