Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Bahá’ís in Iran can be considered as the most marginalized individuals. They are not only deprived of the right to education in universities and higher education centers, or the right to employment in government offices, but they also face various insults and humiliations in their daily lives. Even after their […]...

  Conversation with Mani Tehrani Sometimes we imagine that we have reached a world where public torture of humans is intertwined with history or even mythology, and at the same time, a reminder like the whip on the backs of the workers of the Agh Darreh gold mine in West Azerbaijan, Iran, disturbs our naive […]...

  Conversation with Golaleh Kamangar and Shahou Hosseini Sousan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand “Building housing for low-income classes and providing free “water, electricity, and bus” were promises made to the deprived people of Iran in the early years of the revolution. They asked the people not to be content with just this amount. They promised to elevate […]...

Despite the increase in the number of female representatives in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, there is still not much hope for the drafting and passing of completely equal and fair laws regarding women’s rights. This is the perspective of Dr. Nahid Tavassoli, a sociologist, researcher, and women’s rights activist, who was interviewed by Khat-e-Solh in […]...

Conversation with Siavash Khoramgah Hossein Raeisi, has graduated from Shiraz and Tehran universities in the fields of judicial law and criminal law, and is currently a human rights professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Mr. Raeisi, who has more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer, has a special focus on certain […]...

Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Almost all men in Iran are circumcised during infancy or childhood. The commotion of young boys before undergoing this surgical procedure, their discomfort after the operation, and the celebrations and parties of “Khatneh Suran” which are sometimes accompanied by grandeur and extravagance, are familiar and common images. But why do men, […]...

  Conversation with Mani Tehrani “Our trust in others stems from our self-confidence” or “Trust in others is a sign of our culture”; these are familiar phrases. However, news and reports show that we actually know them as mere words, like the wind in a Persian proverb. Instead, to build more trust, we pay attention […]...

  Simin Rouzgar Mohammad Saleh Nikbakht, a well-known Iranian lawyer, has a long track record in the field of human rights. He has also taken on the representation of a large number of victims of chemical bombings in Iran. Mr. Nikbakht has played a significant role in the formation of the “Association for the Defense […]...

Rahim Vahedi is the president of the Association for the Defense of Chemical Victims’ Rights in Sardasht, which has been operating as a non-profit organization in this city since 1380 (2001). 11 members of Mr. Vahedi’s family lost their lives in the chemical bombing of Sardasht by Iraq, and even after 29 years, when he […]...

  Siyavash Khoramgah During the 8 years of the Iran-Iraq war, widespread atrocities and violence occurred, with the bombing of Sardasht being a prime example of these horrors; especially since most of the victims were civilians and their suffering is not limited to that period alone. Khadar Sadegh is one of the residents of Sardasht […]...