One year ago, the Iranian regime killed as many as 148 Iranian civilians in Mahshahr, while imposing digital darkness to hide evidence of their savage crackdown on last November’s protests in that city. Both protesters and bystanders were targeted by snipers on rooftops, tracked down and surrounded by armored vehicles, and sprayed with machine-gun fire. ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 18 November, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Human Rights, IRGC, Mahshahr, Massacare, Sanctions
The U.S. is ensuring that cancer drugs and other lifesaving medicines reach Iranian patients, part of a broader push to support everyday Iranians and bypass the Iranian regime’s systemic corruption and financial mismanagement. The channel, developed in cooperation with the Swiss government, has already delivered at least 180,000 packages of medicine to Iran. “Iranian cancer ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 6 February, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Iran, Sanctions
Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang’s love of history and languages took him to Tehran two summers ago to learn Persian and conduct research in Iran’s National Archives. Wang had the authorization of the Iranian government and admission to a language institute in Tehran. But in August 2016 authorities arrested Wang, charged him with espionage ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 21 September, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Hostage, Human Rights, Xiyue Wang
Annual Observance of International Women’s Day Press Statement Rex W. Tillerson Secretary of State Washington, DC March 8, 2018 As we commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8th, the United States renews our steadfast commitment to addressing inequalities between women and men at home and abroad and reaffirms the importance of advancing the status of ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 8 March, 2018 | Topics: Policy, Statements | Tags: Human Rights, Women, World Women's Day
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary July 21, 2017 Statement on American Citizens Unjustly Detained in Iran President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are redoubling efforts to bring home all Americans unjustly detained abroad. The United States condemns hostage takers and nations that continue to take hostages and detain our citizens without ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 22 July, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy, Statements | Tags: American Citizens, Baquer Namazi, Human Rights, Iran, Robert Levinson, Siamak Namazi
IRAN: TIER 3 The Government of Iran does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore, Iran remained on Tier 3. Despite the lack of significant efforts, the government took some steps to address trafficking, including operating some centers where trafficking victims ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 28 June, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy, Reports | Tags: Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Iran, Remove term: Trafficking in Person Report Trafficking in Person Report 2017, Trafficking in Person Report
Name: Shahnaz Akmali Occupation: Prisoner’s rights activist Date of Arrest: January 25, 2017 Charge: Advertisement against the system Sentence: 1 year jail and
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 20 June, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Imprisonment, Jail, Shahnaz Akmali
Name: Tahereh Riahi Occupation: Editor for Borna News Agency Date of Arrest: December 2016 Charge: Unknown Sentence: Unknown She was released on bail in June 2017.
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 22 May, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Arrest, Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Jail, Tahereh Riahi
May 17, 2017 U.S. State Department Issues Report on Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Highlights Iran’s Continuing Human Rights Abuses The State Department released today its semi-annual report to Congress detailing sanctions imposed on persons involved in human rights abuses in Iran. The report cites recent sanctions against the Tehran Prisons Organization and Sohrab Soleimani, ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 17 May, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy, Press Releases, Statements | Tags: Human Rights, Iran, Sanctions
Name: Vahid Sayyadi Nasiri Occupation: Political Activist Date of Arrest: October 13, 2016 Charge: “insulting supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state” Sentence: 8 years jail He was released in March 2017
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 5 May, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Jail, Vahid Sayyadi Nasiri
Name: Atena Daemi Occupation: Human Rights Activist Date of Arrest: October 21st, 2014 Charge: “Colliding and conspiracy against the system”, “insulting the sanctities and the leader” and “Hiding the evidence of the crime” Sentence: 7 years in jail
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 24 April, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Activist, Atena Daemi, Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Jail
Name: Marjan Davari Occupation: Translator Date of Arrest: September 24, 2015 Charge: “corruption on earth” and “adultery” Sentence: Death
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 17 March, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights, Jail
Name: Azita Rafizadeh Occupation: teacher Date of Arrest: October 25, 2015 Charge: “membership in the illegal and misguided Baha’i group with the aim of acting against national security through illegal activities at the BIHE educational institute” Sentence: Four years
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 1 March, 2017 | Topics: Culture, Human Rights, Policy | Tags: Baha’i, Faces of Iran, Human Rights
David Geffen David Lawrence Geffen was born in February 21, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York from Immigrant parents and is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist. After finishing high school in Brooklyn, David attended the University of Texas at Austin for a semester, and then Brooklyn College, before again dropping out. ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 10 January, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights | Tags: American, Human Rights, LGBT, Prominent, Prominent American LGBT People
Name: Esmail Abdi Occupation: Secretary General of the Teachers Association of Iran Date of Arrest: June 27, 2015 Charge: “propaganda against the state” and “collusion against national security” Sentence: 6 years
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 November, 2016 | Topics: Human Rights | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights
Name: Mohammad Reza Nekounam Occupation: Cleric Date of Arrest: January 2015 Charge: “Trying to overthrow the Qom Seminary” Sentence: 5 years
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 31 October, 2016 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights
The United States welcomes the appointment of Asma Jahangir of Pakistan as the new Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, in the UN Human Rights Council’s 33rd Session replacing Dr. Ahmed Shaheed of the Maldives, who will now take on the mandate of Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief.
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 5 October, 2016 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, Iran, Special Rapporteur, UN
Name: Nasim (Maryam) Naghash Zargaran Occupation: Unknown Date of Arrest: February 2011 Charge: “Propaganda Against the Islamic Regime” and “Gathering and Acting Against National Security Through Establishment of House Churches” Sentence: 4 Years in Prison She was released in August 2017.
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 12 April, 2016 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Faces of Iran, Human Rights
