INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIGEST | Hossein Sadeghpour | October 6, 2025 Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, that history repeats itself—“the first time as tragedy, the second as farce” (“das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce”). His meditation on the French Revolutions of 1789 […]
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29 September 2025 GENEVA – Over 1000 people have been killed in less than nine months of 2025, UN experts said today, warning that the figures represented a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law. “The sheer scale of executions in Iran is staggering and represents a grave violation of the right to life,”
Free Iran Scholar Network | Shirin Nariman | Aug. 22, 2025 Shirin Nariman is a former political prisoner in Iran during the 1980s. As a former political prisoner in Iran, I witnessed horrors that remain etched into my memory, nightly executions, the shouts of tortured inmates, and the
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AP | August 12, 2025 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s police detained 21,000 suspects during the 12-day air war between Israel and Iran in June, state media reported on Tuesday. A report by state TV quoted a police spokesperson, Gen. Saeed Montazeralmahdi, as saying people reported the suspects to the
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Amnesty International | July 31, 2025 Responding to the Iranian authorities’ use of a guillotine machine to amputate the fingers of three men in Urumieh Central Prison on 30 July as corporal punishment imposed after a grossly unfair, torture-tainted trial, Hussein Baoumi, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and
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July 22, 2025 The following report has been reposted on its anniversary, due to its significance. London, 22 July 2024: Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) welcomes the landmark report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran on the 1988 massacre and Iran’s other atrocity crimes published for the
National Security Journal | Andrew Latham | July 4, 2025 Key Points and Summary on Iran’s Nuclear Program and Israel – The recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran is a dangerous illusion—a temporary pause, not a resolution. -Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion,” which successfully degraded Iran’s nuclear infrastructure,
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Wall Street Journal | Sune Engel Rasmussen | June 2, 2025 07/02/2025 After Israel’s 12-day war dealt a severe blow to the leadership of Iran, one of the country’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities will turn on their own people to consolidate power. “The situation for Iranian people is more dangerous now than before
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Speech at the European Parliament, Strasbourg | June 18, 2025 Honorable Members of the European Parliament, Dear friends, I am honored to once again stand before you — the elected representatives of the people of Europe — who have stood firmly with the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance in their struggle for freedom
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Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish politician, was shot in the face while walking home from the park. Such tactics are part of Tehran’s state terrorism, he says THE SUNDAY TIMES | Adam Sage | May 27, 2025 As the hitman prepared to
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