Middle East

Assault on Kurdish rights continues The Iranian government’s recent restrictions on the use of minority languages are in clear violation of the constitution, says the ……Read More

Direct talks ‘without’ intermediaries A group of former Iranian lawmakers have urged the leaders of Iran, the United States and the European Union to use ……Read More

Relief effort is ‘acting against national security’ A revolutionary court in Tabriz, the capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced twenty humanitarian aid workers ……Read More

Economic crisis deepens The international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme are having a “paralysing” impact on the country’s economy, says a cabinet minister. ……Read More

Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, son of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, has been sentenced to six months in prison. In a recent Facebook post, Mohammad Hossein Karroubi wrote that ……Read More

Syria's ongoing civil war has been costly when measured in terms of human life with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human ……Read More