by Sadra | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog, campaigns
Update: On March 30, Mohammad Najafi was released on furlough. Sotoudeh and Davoodi remain in prison. We urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to grant permanent release to all three of these human rights lawyers. In light of serious threats to life posed by the COVID-19...
by Sadra | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
For nearly everybody around the world who celebrates Norooz (or Persian New Year), which falls on the first day of spring, this year looks very different than so many that have come before. Normally, we’d be cleaning our homes and setting up our ‘haftsin’, getting...
by Sadra | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
UPDATED MARCH 18 We at United for Iran have been following the recent public health crisis in Iran closely, and are gravely concerned by how rapidly the coronavirus has spread through the country. According to the latest official report, as of March 17, the number of...
by Sadra | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog
This year – and this decade – has already had a painful start. Between the near miss of a war between the US and Iran, ongoing protests and government repression of activists, the Iranian military’s murder of 176 passengers aboard a Ukraine Airlines flight, and the...
by Sadra | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, campaigns
Recent events have escalated the tensions between the United States and Iran to the highest levels in recent memory. After President Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that the United States...
