Due to a March 31, 2008 Federal District Court ruling in Massachusetts, Iranians around the world are feeling their grip on their heritage loosen. Artifacts from the ancient city of Persepolis an...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ten years after its enactment, Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at the United Nations, saying: Where do univers...
Iran's likely rejection of the new incentive package to halt the country's nuclear enrichment program has opened a new chapter in Tehran's successive transgression of nuclear demarcations. ...
One of the most curious aspects of reporting on Iran is the never-ending search for finding the one person that "really" makes policy. ...
One of the great aspects of America is that we have many different cultures and identities living together in relative harmony. As a democracy, the American political institution functions best when c...
The election of Ali Larijani as the new speaker of Iran's parliament marks a major development within the faction-ridden politics of the Islamic Republic. ...
Iranian citizen Mohammad Feda'i faces execution for a murder he committed in reported self-defense when he was 17 years old. According to an alert by Amnesty International, Feda'i was "convicted ...
Iranian Nobel prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has long argued that the United States and Iran need to have a dialogue with each other at three different levels: between their executive branches, betw...
Massachusetts Representative Bill Delahunt ended the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight hearing by echoing words he heard from Iranian Non-Gov...
Iran continues to rank second in the world for executions, according to Amnesty International, with 317 people put to death last year. That figure nearly doubled the number of prisoners executed ...
On Tuesday, May 21 NIAC held its monthly congressional briefing which covered the interlacing relationship between the United States, Israel, and Iran. The briefing included an opening statement ...
One of the oddest consequences of U.S. sanctions toward Iran is how it has compelled ordinary Iranians, particularly pro-democracy elements, to help strengthen the Islamic Republic's claim to rul...