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In his fireside chat with FDD President Clifford M

In his fireside chat with FDD President Clifford May, he will discuss an unparalleled opportunity to operationalize alternative policy options that marry maximum support of the Iranian people with maximum pressure against the Iranian regime.

To advance these ideas, FDD and the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), are hosting this symposium featuring a keynote address by author of the Maximum Support Act Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) followed by an exclusive fireside chat with Prince Reza Pahlavi. An expert panel featuring Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD’s Iran Program senior director, and Cameron Khansarinia, NUFDI vice president, will unpack the current state of play with Iran and how maximum support can be paired with maximum pressure; Negar Mojtahedi, Iran International correspondent, will moderate.

A live broadcast link for the event can be found here: https://www.fdd.org/events/2025/04/07/maximum-support-operationalizing-the-other-iran-policy/

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April 3 - (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Ri

April 3 - (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s adoption of a resolution to continue the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran and significantly broaden the scope of its investigations is a crucial step for tackling the deepening crisis of impunity in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, advocated for by a large number of human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, was originally established amid the deadly state crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom protests of 2022. The mission will now have the mandate to monitor and investigate allegations of recent and ongoing serious human rights violations; establish the facts, circumstances, and structural causes of such violations; and collect, consolidate, analyze, and preserve evidence of violations with a view to facilitate future legal proceedings.

“The council’s decision, supported by 24 states from all regions of the world, sends a strong signal that the impunity gap that enables gross violations of human rights and crimes under international law in Iran is increasingly closing,” said Bahar Saba, senior Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The resolution ensures continued international scrutiny as well as the collection and preservation of evidence to facilitate future prosecutions of perpetrators of crimes under international law, at all levels.”

In its March 2025 report, the fact-finding mission found that gross violations of human rights, some of which it found amount to crimes against humanity, are ongoing and recommended continuing investigations into the country’s human rights situation.

The extension and expansion of the fact-finding mission illustrates growing international recognition of the need to tackle systematic and structural impunity for human rights violations and crimes under international law, which has fueled cycles of state violence in Iran for decades. The mandate will be instrumental in holding perpetrators to account and supporting ongoing efforts by survivors, victims, and their families for their rights to truth, justice, and reparations.

PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) – Two French citizens h

PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) – Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris have been held since May 2022. Iranian state television aired a video later that year with them appearing to confess to acting on behalf of French intelligence services, something categorically denied by Paris.

Held in Tehran’s Evin prison, France has accused Iran of keeping them in conditions akin to torture.

French officials have toughened their language towards Iran, notably over the advancement of its nuclear programme and regional activities, but also the detention of European citizens in the country.

Speaking after a rare cabinet meeting to broadly discuss Iran on Wednesday, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot indicated Paris would soon take the matter of violating the right to consular protection to the ICJ.

“We are putting together a complaint that we will file at the ICJ,” Foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine told reporters at a news conference on Thursday, adding that the Kohler and Paris were being held in “shocking” conditions.

Lemoine declined to say when it would be filed and acknowledged that procedures at the ICJ were long, but insisted that Tehran needed to be called out on the issue because the embassy and consulate had not had access to their citizens for more than a year.

“It’s in violation of Iran’s obligations,” he said, citing the Vienna convention on consular relations.

In recent years, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals and foreigners, mostly on charges related to espionage and security.

Rights groups have accused Iran of trying to extract concessions from other countries through such arrests.

Iran, which does not recognize dual nationality, denies taking prisoners to gain diplomatic leverage.

(Reporting by John Irish, editing by Ed Osmond)

April 2, 2025 - Tehran, Iran - The Sizdah Bedar ce

April 2, 2025 - Tehran, Iran - The Sizdah Bedar celebrations at Laleh Park, which was previously known as Farah Park, brought together Iranians to mark the conclusion of the Persian New Year (Nowruz) festivities.
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Sizdah Bedar - Isfahan residents and tourists who

Sizdah Bedar - Isfahan residents and tourists who have traveled to this city sang a song on the dry bed of the city’s famous symbol, the Zayandeh River, wishing for it to be filled with water and for its roaring waves to be heard again.

“I want the river to return
May happiness return to this house again.”
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#kayhanlife #sizdahbedar

Sizdah Bedar in Qeytariyeh Park, Tehran, Iran:
“Oh Iran, the land of gems abound,
Oh the wellspring of arts is your ground.
Far from you may the thoughts of evil be,
Long may you last and eternal be.
Oh enemy, if you are of rock, I am of iron,
Eternal may the land of Iran be.”
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