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Iran FM, UN human rights chief vow to boost cooperation
Feb 28, 2023 13:54Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk have agreed to boost cooperation and hold talks in the future over various aspects of human rights.
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'HRC turned into foreign policy instrument of a handful of states led by US'
Feb 27, 2023 11:43Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has strongly criticized the United States and “a handful of states” led by Washington for manipulating the concept of human rights in line with their own political purposes.
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US deploys anti-drone systems in Yemen’s Hadhramaut to repel strikes: Reports
Feb 25, 2023 14:13The US military has reportedly deployed anti-drone systems in Yemen’s oil-rich eastern province of Hadhramaut to repel retaliatory drone strikes by Yemeni Armed Forces and fighters from their allied Popular Committees.
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Yemen demands UN action as UAE, Israel evict locals from strategic island southwest of Socotra
Feb 24, 2023 10:22Yemen has called on the United Nations and relevant international bodies to adopt proper measures against expulsion of Yemeni families by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from a strategic island southwest of Socotra, as part of plans to build a military base there under the supervision of Israeli military experts.
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Terror ringleader handed death penalty based on Iranian laws: Rights chief
Feb 23, 2023 08:54Iran’s top human rights official says the death sentence handed down to the ringleader of a US-based terrorist group was issued in accordance with the country’s judicial laws and after his case went through a fair legal process.
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Bahraini rulers given carte blanche by US for bloody crackdown: Opposition leader
Feb 20, 2023 11:34The Bahraini regime has been given carte blanche by the United States to employ ruthless, repressive measures against dissenting voices, says a prominent Bahraini opposition leader.
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Daily violators of human rights are fake rights advocates: Iranian official
Feb 05, 2023 03:18The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry has slammed the double standards of those who claim to defend human rights.
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Saudi Arabia executions almost doubled under MBS, King Salman: Report
Feb 02, 2023 05:09The rate of executions in Saudi Arabia since King Salman and his son Mohammed bin Salman came to power in 2015 has almost doubled annually, according to a new report, highlighting flagrant human rights violations in the Arab country.
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Iran blasts ‘deafening silence’ of so-called rights advocates on holy Qur’an desecration
Jan 26, 2023 12:15The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs has blasted the “deafening silence” of the so-called rights advocates on desecration of the holy Qur’an by a notorious Swedish extremist, saying the sacrilegious move is a clear example of hate-mongering against Muslims.
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Rights group raises alarm over fate of jailed activists in Saudi Arabia
Jan 24, 2023 09:50A human rights organization has sounded the alarm over the fate of political dissidents incarcerated in Saudi jails, amid the Riyadh regime’s aggressive crackdown on any whiff of dissent.