Radio Farda - In another clear sign of the once all-powerful Larijani family losing influence in Iran, the countrys Judiciary announced that Mohammad-Javad Larijani has been removed as head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights. Judiciarys spokesperson announced Sunday, December 29 that Ali Baqeri Kani will replace the long-serving Larijani. Two ...

MNA The UN Human Rights Council has praised Iran for enacting laws and policies to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities and for efforts taken to reduce poverty. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran at the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Friday. ...

Press TV - Irans envoy to the UN Human Rights Council has condemned the US sanctions as a breach of the UN Charter and a major challenge to the Islamic Republics efforts to improve the human rights situation in the country. Addressing a Friday meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mohammad Javad Larijani ...

Tasnim Chief of the Iranian Judiciarys Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani deplored the US governments crimes against Muslims and said Washington is seeking to remove every trace of Islamic and human civilization. Americans are seeking to eliminate the traces of human civilization, Larijani said, addressing an international meeting on ...

IRNA US and its allied countries are dungeons of human rights, the secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights said on Sunday. The US and its allies have always made instrumental use of human rights to attack Iran while they themselves are main violators of human rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani said. He made the remarks after his ...

IRNA Iran is most capable in human rights; that's why the enemy targets the country there, said the secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights. 'The civil structure formed in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution doesnt exist in any of the regional countries,' said Mohammad-Javad Larijani in a human rights conference in Kerman, southeast ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani argued that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a victim of internal conflicts and feuds between the US democrats and was killed only after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman received a green light from President Donald Trump. "Khashoggi had important information ...

IRNA - Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human rights said that the current European policies in the blatant support of the terrorists such as MKO are against the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. In his meeting with Bulgarian ambassador to Tehran 'Christo Polendakov, Mohammad Javad Larijani added, 'The MKO whose hands are stained ...

IRNA - The international affairs assistant in the Iranian judiciary, Mohammad-Javad Larijani on Monday underlined that he has been misquoted on presence of Al-Qaeda members in the Iranian territory. Those claiming such charges pursue media hype masterminded by foreign media, he said. 'What I said was a direct quotation from the US investigation ...

FNA- Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted Riyadh, UAE, the US and Britain for their extensive human rights violations in Yemen, stressing the need for relevant international bodies to put them on trial. "The crimes committed by Saudi Arabia, UAE, the US and Britain in Yemen and other parts of the world are clear ...

Tasnim A senior official at the Iranian Judiciary highlighted the Western propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic judicial system and said some countries who call themselves advocates of human rights commit terrorist acts under the cover of defending the rights. The Islamic Republic has a judicial system based on a modern and updated perception ...

MNA Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said on Wednesday that new US anti-Iran sanctions are aimed to inflict damage on Iranian economy. The new anti-Iran sanctions imposed by US are targeting Iranian economy, said Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Official urges suspension of Irans JCPOA commitments A senior official at the Iranian Judiciary who calls himself a critic of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) said the countrys administration should suspend its commitments under the deal ...

Tasnim A senior official at the Iranian Judiciary who calls himself a critic of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) said the countrys administration should suspend its commitments under the deal following the US withdrawal from it. Speaking to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Chief of the ...

Reuters - It would be a severe mistake for Iran to stay in the nuclear deal if the U.S. leaves it, a senior official said on Tuesday, a day after President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran could remain in the deal even if the United States drops out. If the United States leaves the JCPOA (Irans nuclear deal), they should know that would be the end of ...

Press TV- The Western media never let the truth of the human rights situation in Iran be known, says the head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights. Mohammad Javad Larijani, who is in Geneva to attend the 37th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, told Press TV on Thursday that media reports about human rights issues in Iran, from capital ...

IFP- An Iranian official says the key disadvantage of the Iran nuclear deal is that it allows for a scientific area that is off limits. Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of the Iranian Research Centre for Fundamental Sciences, says it is necessary for a country to have science policy to be able to stand on its own feet. He said having a science ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani slammed the UK police for flawed and weak reaction to the Friday attack on the Iranian embassy premises in London, and accused Britain of complicity in the crime. "I have no doubt that the raid on the embassy has been conducted in full cooperation and collaboration with the British ...

IRNA - Iran Judiciary's human rights chief called on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday to discard dual standards and politically-motivated actions. Tehran considers appointment of country mandate holder for Iran based on dual standards and as an ill-intended, and politically motivated action, orchestrated by a few numbers of the Council ...

FNA - Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted the western states for supporting the terrorists and aggressors in the Middle-East region, and said they are not qualified to speak about human rights. "In our view, the US and Europe are not qualified to speak about human rights issues for the crimes they have committed ...