Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano has announced that it has ended business with the Iranian regime following reports that its cranes have been used to stage public executions in Iran. Tadano’s announcement comes just days after the president of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), Mark Wallace, wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-edthat the company exports cranes [...]

Iranian authorities have hanged another 30 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on drug-related charges, says the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The campaign cites “local knowledgeable sources” saying 12 prisoners were executed on Wednesday June 29 and another 18 were hanged on the following Sunday. The International Campaign for Human Rights in [...]

Isa Sahahrkhiz, a prominent journalist and one of the founders of the Society for the Defense of Press Freedom in Iran has written a letter from Rajai Shahr prison to the UN Human Rights Special RapporteurDr. Ahmad Shaheed, urging him to take immediate action and travel to Iran. Isa Saharkhiz was violently arrested in July 2009 [...]

Russia on Wednesday laid out a “step-by-step” approach under which Iran could address questions about its nuclear program and be rewarded with a gradual easing of sanctions. The proposal, described by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after talks with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seeks to revive negotiations to put to [...]

In a suspicious move, plainclothes agents have stationed themselves outside Navid Khanjani’s home in Isfahan since July 9th. Navid Khanjani is a human rights activist with membership in the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and the Association Against Educational Discrimination. Plainclothes agents, who are reportedly armed, have exerted tremendous pressure on the Khanjani family in [...]

Head of Iran’s Expediency Council renewed his allegiance to Iran’s Supreme leader saying he knows of no one who could replace the leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khamenei. Mehr news agency reports that in a meeting with a group of Shiraz academics, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani said his relationship with Ayatollah Khamenei was “good and [...]

Iran’s defense minister rejected U.S. allegations that the country was helping insurgents in neighboring Iraq, saying Wednesday that such “baseless claims” demonstrate U.S. failure in the Middle Eastern country. Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi’s comments were reported by the semiofficial Fars News Agency. Vahidi said the United States was trying to sow discord among the countries [...]

Saudi Arabia is seeking to benefit from a payment dispute between Iran and India by selling additional cargoes of crude oil to refiners in the South Asian nation, two people with direct knowledge of the talks said. Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the state producer based in Dhahran, has told refiners in India it can replace [...]

In an urgent letter to a United Nations human rights official, jailed Iranian journalist Issa Saharkhiz has accused Iranian authorities of using harsh prison conditions to slowly kill political prisoners. “What is happening now in the Islamic Republic prisons is a crime against humanity and has nothing less than Stalin’s inhumane treatment of prisoners in [...]

Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq’s Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad. A senior Iranian military official accused Masoud Barzani, the Kurdistan president, of “giving 300,000 hectares of land to the PJAK terrorist group without [...]