Source: www.irishexaminer.com While many religious groups have suffered discrimination during the Islamic Republic’s 41-year rule of Iran, Bahá’ís are widely considered the most persecuted, writes Dr Brendan McNamara ON May 13, Simon Coveney, the Tánaiste and foreign…
Source: articleeighteen.com A human rights lawyer whose clients include jailed Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh says a recent change to the law in Iran “will facilitate the repression and punishment of Christian converts and others belonging to unrecognised…
Source: www.fdd.org By Tzvi Kahn Religious freedom conditions in Iran “remained egregiously poor” in 2019, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday. The report paints a bleak portrait…
Source: www.pbs.org BY GEORGE JAHN AND ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA — Austria has shut its door to about 300 non-Muslim Iranians hoping to use the country as a way station before establishing new homes…
Source: www.bic.org UNITED NATIONS—4 November 2015—Growing up in Iran, Naeim Tavakkoli recalls being forced to sit on the floor in school to dry out on rainy days so that the “unclean” water he shed as a…
Source: www.washingtontimes.com By Cheryl Wetzstein – The Washington Times – Monday, August 3, 2015 Iran’s president, who reached his second anniversary in office Monday, was again implored to release prisoners of conscience — including an Iranian-American pastor…
Source: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this week marks the two-year anniversary of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s assumption of…
Source: bahaicamp.com, www.farsnews.com Translation by Iran Press Watch Clear example of violation of the rights of Baha’i citizens by a Deputy of Judiciary Branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the “Conference of the Religions” in…
Source: www.commentarymagazine.com By Michael Rubin | @mrubin1971 06.21.2015 – 10:00 AM Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic Revolution ushered in what Khomeini and his supporters promised would be an Islamic democracy, but what in reality would quickly reveal itself to…
Source: www.jpost.com Report raises disturbing questions about Iranian compliance with any nuclear agreement in light of failure to respect its citizens’ basic human rights. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure has been marked by intensified persecution and…
Christians, Baha’is jailed despite election of the purportedly moderate president Source: freebeacon.com May 13, 2015 5:00 am BY: Daniel Wiser Iranian authorities have escalated their persecution of religious minorities since the election of President Hassan Rouhani despite…
Source: www.ecumenicalnews.com/article/iran-lies-about-religious-freedom-christian-bahai-believers-say-at-un-27062 Peter Kenny Sunday, November 02 2014 GENEVA – Iran’s representative has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the West, a “media blitz” and “propaganda” is to blame for its execution the previous…
Source: http://www.smallmedia.org.uk/heretics/ “At best, Iran’s religious minority communities are reduced to second-class citizenship; at worst, they are imprisoned, exiled, or sentenced to death. Iran’s Jews, Zoroastrians, Armenian Christians, Baha’is, Evangelical Christians, and Sunni and Sufi Muslims…
Source: Khodnevis, http://goo.gl/D1G0Ak Translation by Iran Press Watch Reaction of the spokesperson for the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the US report on religious discrimination in Iran July 30, 2014 Arezou Fooladvand Rejecting…
Published 14 May 2014 | Carey Lodge Source: christiantoday.com, http://goo.gl/wDIb46 Further reports have emerged of Christians being violently tortured and beaten while serving prison sentences for their faith in Iran. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an international…
Source: Almonitor, http://goo.gl/KQNHlB July 28, 2014, Barbara Slavin A year after Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration as Iran’s president, the human rights situation in the country has deteriorated for many human rights defenders and especially for Baha’is and Christian converts as…
