This article was originally published by Forbes. Firuzeh Mahmoudi founded the first civic tech startup focused on Iran. She and her team are…


This article was originally published by Forbes. Firuzeh Mahmoudi founded the first civic tech startup focused on Iran. She and her team are…

Learn the story of former political prisoner, and lead researcher of Iran Prison Atlas Mehdi Aminizadeh in an interview with NPR.

Firuzeh Mahmoudi discusses her unique experience at the intersection of technology and civil liberties at Oslo Freedom Forum. Motivated by the…

This article was originally published by Wired. Firuzeh Mahmoudi didn’t mean to start a human-rights movement. It was June 20, 2009, and in…

This article was originally published by Forbes. In response to the day-to-day violence and legal limitations facing many women in Iran (and…

Originally published on Coda Story on October 1, 2022. Firuzeh Mahmoudi is rubbing her temples. Speaking on a video call from her home in San…

Originally published on The World on September 29, 2022 In Iran, a phone app called Gershad is in huge demand right now. The mapping app,…

Originally streamed on CNN Newsroom on October 9, 2022. “It’s unprecedented to have a protest that is so unified in its voice, that…

Originally streamed on The Young Turks on September 28, 2022. Watch the full conversation >> The conversation between Adrienne Lawrence and…

It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Ms. Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran. She passed away on…

UN rights experts call on Iran to halt imminent executions of Iranian Kurds GENEVA (7 September 2018) – UN human rights experts* have appealed to…

Iran’s Judiciary has issued a harsh new prison sentence for Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights attorney and women’s rights advocate. On March…

We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organizations and advocates, express grave concerns over the rising tension between the…

Today United for Iran turns ten years old. What a journey it has been. Like so many of you, I was deeply inspired by the people demanding freedom…

This month of August marks our very own 10 year anniversary at United for Iran and we couldn’t be more proud of the impact of our work and…

Last updated on November 22nd, 2019 The protests were sparked over dramatic increases in gasoline prices. Iranians enjoy some of the cheapest…

Today marks 11 years since the beginning of the Iranian Green Movement, an uprising borne out of the highly disputed results of the 2009…

This week marks eleven years since the Global Day of Action –– the worldwide rally that spanned six continents and 110 cities on July 25, 2009. It…

It has been an especially hard and discouraging year for our global society, and for the people of Iran, in particular. United for Iran was borne…

Iranian feminist and women’s rights activist Samaneh Savadi has been working with our IranCubator project for almost a year to launch Cheragh…

Incubated by United for Iran’s IranCubator project and created by an accomplished Iranian feminist and women’s rights activist Samaneh Savadi,…

9 April 2010 An attorney representing those arrested during the post election protests told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that…
Following the arrest of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s grandson and Faezeh Hashemi’s son, Hassan Lahooti, Iranian Judiciary authorities have asked…
One month after the arrest of Alireza Falahati, there is no news of his whereabouts. Falahati was a campaign head for the Islamic Iran Participation…
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expresses its deep concern about attack on the home of Mehdi Karroubi, seeing it as a clear sign of…
English | Farsi | French | German Much thanks to United4Iran Germany: http://united4iran.de/ Declaration on the Conflicts Regarding Iran Being…
(8 January 2010) Today’s assassination attempt against Iranian opposition leader and cleric Mehdi Karroubi bears signs of being organized by…
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Khamenei has become the new Shah — hated by so many that it seems implausible that Iranian elites will ever be able to operate without much…
Berlin – Further international economic sanctions on Iran would damage the country’s pro-democracy movement and have no effect on the…
October 23, 2009 By MICHAEL SLACKMAN RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi…