Human Rights Council extends mandates on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran, South S
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted five resolutions in which it extended the mandates on the Democratic People’s...
Genocide Watch
Mar 23, 2018
Russia vetoes resolution blaming Iran for arming Yemen's Houthis
Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution based on a UN report condemning Iran for violating an arms embargo by...
Al Jazeera
Feb 27, 2018
Syria war: Russia says no agreement on ceasefire resolution
Russia has said there is no agreement on a UN Security Council resolution to bring in a 30-day truce in Syria. Russia's UN ambassador,...
BBC News
Feb 22, 2018
Russia resists Western bid to condemn Iran at U.N. over Yemen Arms
By Michelle Nichols The United Nations Security Council should not condemn Iran in a resolution to renew sanctions on Yemen, Russia’s...
Reuters
Feb 22, 2018
Israel, Hizbollah and Iran: Preventing Another War in Syria
What’s new? A new phase in Syria’s war augurs escalation with Israel. As the Assad regime gains the upper hand, Hizbollah probes the...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 7, 2018
Yemen’s war is so out of control, allies are turning on one another
SANAA, Yemen — The three-year-old Yemen conflict has largely been cast as a war that pits an internationally recognized government...
Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan | The
Feb 3, 2018
The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report
What’s the issue? The 2015 Iran nuclear accord is as successful as it remains fragile. President Trump has warned he will scuttle it...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 16, 2018
Iran tries to censor coverage of protests by media based abroad
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Iranian government’s attempt to silence coverage of the current wave of protests by...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 5, 2018
How Iran’s President Rouhani Can Turn Crisis into Opportunity
Manifold reasons lie behind Iran’s ongoing protests, but the immediate trigger appears to be widespread disgruntlement over the country’s...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 4, 2018
The Battle for Iran
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in...
Karim Sadjadpour | The Atlantic
Dec 31, 2017
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
UN body calls on Iran to shed light on fate of disappeared victims of 1988 massacre
The UN Working Group on Involuntarily and Enforced Disappearances has urged Iran to tell the truth about the fate of two victims of the...
Justice For Iran
Nov 13, 2017
