Ellen Nakashima
November 3, 2020 at 6:29 p.m. EST
U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency have taken recent actions to ensure that foreign actors do not interfere in the 2020 election, including an operation in the past two weeks against Iran, U.S. officials said.
The move against Iranian hackers working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps […]
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U.S. undertook cyber operation against Iran as part of effort to secure the 2020 election
November 6, 2020 by
Arrests, torture and executions: Iran’s autumn of discontent
October 15, 2020 by
Analysts believe the hanging of wrestling champion Navid Afkari last month was meant to deter future protests
Spiraling economic crisis could spur more repression and violence as regime confronts widespread discontent
LONDON: In the face of the Middle East’s worst COVID-19 outbreak and economic ruin, Iran’s violent crackdown and persecution of anti-government activists is an attempt to deter […]
Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report
September 20, 2020 by
September, 2, 2020
Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care
Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national security charges
Death sentences issued based on torture-tainted “confessions”
Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity […]
US ambassador says Iran is world No. 1 sponsor of terrorism
August 7, 2020 by
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press•August 6, 2020
Pompeo wants Iran arms embargo extension vote at UN on this matter.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations called Iran “the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism” on Thursday and warned Russia and China that they will become “co-sponsors” if they block a resolution to extend the […]
Iran’s regime continues persecution of human rights defenders
July 22, 2020 by
Protesters, journalists and women who refuse to wear a hijab all risk facing trial in Iran. But many of the lawyers trained to fight for those defendants are already in jail.
According to a recent report from the Center for Human Rights in Iran, nine human rights attorneys in Iran have been arrested or disbarred in […]
