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RFL/RE – The United States has charged Russia and Iran with committing a range of serious human rights abuses both domestically and abroad in an annual State Department report.In its Country Reports On Human Rights Practices For 2018, the State Department said Russian authorities had committed or been implicated in “severe” human rights abuses at home and in foreign countries, …

VOA — A senior Iranian security official on Wednesday accused regional powers of spending money on “suspicious nuclear projects,” and warned that such threats would force Tehran to revise its defense strategy. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, did not name the countries — but a proposed transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia has …

VOA — A report critical of Iran’s human rights situation and its crackdown on people protesting declining living standards is under review this week at the U.N. Human Rights Council. The U.N. special investigator on the human rights situation in Iran, Javaid Rehman, said the country faces myriad challenges, many related to rising inflation and deteriorating economic and social conditions …

VOA — The United Arab Emirates says seven Emiratis and two Egyptians held by Iran since January after being detained in the Persian Gulf have been freed. The Emirati Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday the nine were detained while on a fishing trip. It said those detained were released into the care of the UAE Coast Guard. Iranian …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Two prisoners were hanged at Birjand Central Prison for drug-related charges on Monday, March 11, 2019. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, March 11, ShirMohammad Naroei, 50, and Younes Naroei, 20, were hanged at Birjand Central Prison. The father and son were sentenced to death for drug-related charges. “The father and son were …