The U.S. State Department says sanctions imposed against Iran in response to its violations of human rights will remain in place regardless of any nuclear deal brokered by Tehran and six world powers. Tom Malinowski, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, made the announcement on June 25 in […]
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U.S., Iranian Teams To Meet In Geneva Next Week Before P5+1 Talks
A team of U.S. nuclear negotiators is scheduled to meet with Iranian officials on December 15 and 16 in Geneva, Switzerland for talks that conclude a day before Iranian negotiators meet there with six world powers on December 17. The U.S. negotiating team at the bilateral talks is to be led by Under Secretary […]
U.S. Treasury Targets Businesses Linked To Iran
The U.S. Treasury Department has announced new actions against companies and individuals in Europe and the Middle East that have been doing business with Iran in defiance of international sanctions. Those affected by the February 6 decision are alleged to have played “key roles in supporting Iran’s nuclear program and active support for terrorism.” […]
U.S. Releases Details Of Iranian Deal
The White House has sent the text of an agreement to implement an interim nuclear deal reached with Iran in November to the U.S. Congress. A summary of the deal, reached on January 12, was released to the media. The move comes following criticism in Washington that the Obama administration was keeping the agreement […]
Nobel winner Ebadi urges EU, U.S. to ban Iran from TV satellites
Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday called on the European and United States to ban Iran from using U.S. and European satellites to broadcast what she described as the Islamic Republic’s propaganda. Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work promoting human rights […]
U.S., Iranian Presidents Speak By Phone
U.S. President Barack Obama says he has spoken by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rohani in the first direct conversation between U.S. and Iranian presidents in more than 30 years. The conversation came hours after Rohani called the United States a “great” nation, a stark reversal from his predecessors, as intense diplomatic efforts by […]
Iran, U.S. Preparing For Highest-Level Contact In Years
The United States and Iran are preparing for what could be their highest-level contact in six years. Officials say Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is expected to join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a meeting on September 26 with their counterparts from Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia at the United […]
Iranian Activists Welcome U.S. Lifting Of Sanctions On Communications Tools
The lifting of U.S. sanctions on the export to Iran of communication tools has been welcomed by activists and groups who had pushed for such a move and argued that the sanctions end up hurting ordinary Iranians, not the regime. On May 30, the U.S. Treasury and the State Department said they were removing […]
U.S. Commission Decries Religious Freedom Violators
A U.S. government advisory body says that Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are among the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2013 report says the countries should be designated “countries of particular concern” by the U.S. government for “particularly severe” violations — a designation that […]
U.S. Issues Country Reports On Human Rights Practices (Situation of Dervish Lawyers)
The U.S. State Department has released its “Country Reports On Human Rights Practices” for 2012, highlighting crackdowns on civil society, struggles for democratic change, and threats to freedom of expression. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented the reports to the media in Washington on April 19. The document states that “governments continued to […]