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25 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
Department of State will end all exceptions to its trade sanctions on Iran. [read post]
21 Apr 2019, 7:00 am by Jessie Durrett
Women in particular have experienced gradual gains, although the country still has one of the world’s worst track records on women’s rights. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 4:49 pm
President Obama’s administration’s game of footsy with the Castros’ junta did not deter the regime from continuing to harass and oppress the heroic Ladies in White, a group of women dedicated to peacefully protesting the regime’s human rights abuses. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 6:52 pm
Katayoon Beshkardana will discuss inadequacy of laws and democratic procedures in addressing the tragedy of women self-immolation and honor killings in Iran. [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 7:00 am by Sama’a Al-Hamdani
Many analyses reduce the conflict to a proxy war between the Arab coalition—led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—and Iran. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
The state Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission filed a complaint against Hill that says he engaged in acts of battery or sexual battery against the women. [read post]
Women have slightly lower average confidence in Mueller than men; women’s average confidence was at 2.87, to 2.91 for men. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 6:06 am by John Sipher
This risk has manifested itself lately is the rise in the number of Indonesian women seeking online marriages with fighters in Syria, in the hopes of raising children in an “Islamic State. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 9:17 am by Xi Lucy Shi
 Last year Sotoudeh represented a number of women who have removed their headscarf, or hijab, in public to protest against Iran’s mandatory Islamic dress code for women, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based advocacy group. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:38 am by Tarek Maalouf
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) announced Tuesday that human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh had been convicted in absentia by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh of Iran’s Revolutionary Court. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 10:30 pm by Daniel Philpott
Women would be allowed to doff their headscarves in Iran and don theirs in Turkey. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
    Long before the elections of 2016, the American Republic had been moving toward more formal and open hostilities in the cultural civil war, one with social, economic, cultural and political consequences, that was one of the great consequences of the immediate post 1945 period. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 7:30 am by Lev Sugarman
One in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 3:10 pm by Berry Law Firm
January 1 – New Years Day January 7, 1789 – America’s First Presidential Election Held January 15, 1943 – Completed Building the Pentagon January 20, 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis Ends January 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 12:12 pm by Nicholas Norberg
The Kurdish Connection & Turkish Objections The YPG, along with its all-female counterpart, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), were formed in 2004 as the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a political party formed in 2003 to clandestinely organize Syrian Kurds. [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 9:55 am by Scott Harman
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iran’s failure to cancel its plans to launch new satellites would be met with consequences but stopped short of specifics if Iran were to proceed, details the Washington Post. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 9:45 am by Jillian C. York
We turn to Iran, where designer and programmer Saeed Malekpour languishes in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison. [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 1:29 pm by Nicholas Norberg
The major initial outcome of the Astana talks was the September 2017 de-escalation zones agreement, which carved Syria into four zones in which Russia, Iran and Turkey would, theoretically, jointly enforce ceasefires to allow humanitarian aid deliveries. [read post]