Reuters reported on Saturday that the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program shows that Iran violated one of the commitments it made in last year’s Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with the P5+1 powers. Reuters cited an analysis of the IAEA report prepared by...
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In the Daily Beast today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla) call attention to Iran’s “horrific” human rights record , which “deserves equal attention” as its nuclear ambitions and support of international terrorism. Using the recent execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari as a starting point, Kirk and Rubio focus on the...
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Reuters revealed today the existence of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document charging that Iran has failed to address questions about its past nuclear research. Reuters has more: Iran is failing to address suspicions it may have worked on designing an atomic bomb, according to the latest report by a U.N. watchdog,...
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At a joint press conference Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Voice of America (VOA) reported that the two diplomats agreed “that Iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program but ‘not a track...
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The deadline for the P5+1 nations and Iran to reach a deal to keep Iran from ever having nuclear weapons arrives next month, and negotiators are working overtime to reach a deal that would supposedly stop their nuclear program. Yet critics have suggested that the impending deal would do the exact opposite—preserve Iran’s technology and...
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Mohammad Mostafaei, the first lawyer for Reyhaneh Jabbari, the 26 year old woman Iranian who was recently executed for killing an assailant, told UN Watch Friday that Jabbari was not given a fair trial: I was Reyhaneh Jabbari’s lawyer. Mr. Larijani’s statement is completely false. It is not true that she had...
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In testimony (embedded below) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, an Arab-Israeli priest, Father Gabriel Naddaf, told the council that Israel was the “only safe place” for Christians in the Middle East. Naddaf presented his testimony on behalf of the NGO UN Watch,...
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Yesterday Lebanon’s NOW media outlet reported that Iran has offered to send arms to Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) amid growing violence between the LAF and Sunni jihadi groups in the northern city of Tripoli. At a religious ceremony Monday in the southern town of Al-Zarariyeh, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah pointed to...
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Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Right in the Islamic Republic of Iran, compiled a report on the status of minorities in Iran to be presented to political leaders Tuesday. Benjamin Weinthal reports that despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s campaign promise to extend citizenship...
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Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26 year old Iranian woman, was hanged Saturday after international pleas to spare her life were disregarded by the Iranian government. The Telegraph reports: Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn in Rajaie Shahr prison outside Tehran after spending seven years behind bars. She was the 967th person...
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