30 years ago, on April 18, 1983, a truck loaded with 2000 pounds of explosives crashed into the American Embassy in Beirut, causing the collapse of the building's central section and killing 63 people, mostly Lebanese. The "Islamic Jihad," an affiliate of Hezbollah with strong political...

In late January 2013, Argentina and the Islamic Republic of Iran signed an agreement to create a truth commission, composed of five international jurists, to re-investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of the AMIA Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Iranian authorities had refused to cooperate during the...

Every year on December 10, countries around the world honor World Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nation's focus was the right to all people "to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making." This was President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's last chance to...

The American presidential campaign is over and Americans have elected a president who will have to face many challenges inside and outside the U.S. How to tackle the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear ambitions was a recurrent theme in the campaign, but the candidates did not offer solutions that could...

The recently published third report by Dr. Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, provoked a statement from Sadeq Larijani. In an October 18 statement, the evidently irritated head of Iran's judiciary attacked Dr. Shaheed's sources and stressed that...

"I could hear her make prisoners laugh. Sometimes, she even made the guards laugh." This is what a former prisoner remembers of Zahra Bahrami, who, she says, was lively, kind to her fellow prisoners, and defiant towards the guards. (Boroumand Foundation interview with a former political prisoner, January 2012)

One...

Some days I yearn for the time when there was no Internet and information about tragic events was hard to verify and slow to reach us. We were disheartened for sure and truly powerless, but today, being well informed does not necessarily empower us.

In the communication age, news...

Today, most of us working with human rights organizations or the media outside Iran are off from work, shopping for Christmas, or spending time with our families. In Iran, government offices are closed on Thursday afternoons and Fridays. Yet, for the Iranian government, Christmas and the weekend's closure presented the...

On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Iran's judicial authorities have surpassed their own cruelty and cynicism in an effort to distract public opinion from their dismal human rights record in particular when it comes to due process of law and the right to defense. Flouting rules and...

While still recovering from the shock of seeing the Islamic Republic of Iran sitting on the UN Commission on Women's Rights (CSW), we discover that it is being elected today -- November 10 -- by the Asia Region, to the executive board of UN Women. UN Women is the...