The Islamic Republic government is among those governments that seriously and continuously violate the human rights and rights of religious, spiritual, and ideological minorities. Furthermore, through various forms of pressure and discriminatory actions, it creates difficult conditions for these minorities. The extent of these pressures ranges from depriving them of social and citizenship rights, such […]...

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Message from Vali, a Bahai citizen who, according to the decision of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, has been systematically and extensively deprived of his citizenship rights solely because of being a Bahai. In a conversation about peace, he recounts what has happened to him over the past three decades: As a Baha’i citizen […]...

Parvaneh Salashouri is the representative of Tehran’s people in the tenth session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. She, who holds a PhD in sociology, has been active in the cultural commission and the women’s faction of this assembly throughout her tenure. This reformist representative has made numerous statements on the civil issues of Iranian society […]...

Mohammad Saleh Nikbakht is a prominent lawyer and defense attorney, well-known in Iran. He is a human rights activist and a member of the Association for the Support of Prisoners. He has a long history of handling important and controversial cases in the country and currently represents several detained members of the Syndicate of Workers […]...

Ahvaz Steel was privatized and transferred to the private sector by the Privatization Organization in pursuit of the approval of the “Implementation of General Policies of Article 44 of the Constitution” in 2009. Despite summonses and threats from security institutions, the workers of the National-Industrial Group of Ahvaz Steel had been continuously protesting and demonstrating […]...

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Since the day that Ayatollah Khomeini explicitly ordered the ban on armed forces entering politics until the commander of Sepah in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad said, “Don’t worry, Sepah will have an active presence in politics,” forty years have passed. During these forty years, the Sepah Pasdaran have rooted themselves so deeply in the fabric of […]...

Billions of humans live on this vast planet with a wide range of group and individual differences; with differences that are both voluntary and involuntary. Involuntary differences are those that humans have no control over in their choices; such as gender, race, nationality, and mother tongue. However, voluntary differences such as religion, lifestyle, political beliefs, […]...

First – not everything is worthy of creation! Development, one of the sensitive, expansive and multidimensional concepts in humanities, and one of the important rights of citizens of a country/state, has been plagued by misunderstanding since its introduction to Iran. There is a spectrum of intellectuals in Iran who essentially see the “Iranian nation” itself […]...