Videos are spreading across news networks that an Afghan, Sayed Nassar, who says he served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan has been handcuffed and detained by ICE at his asylum hearing in San Diego. His lawyer, Dan McGoldrick says Nassar was indeed an

What’s the endgame after the U.S. massive strike against Fordow, Natanz, and especially Isfahan. Iran doesn’t have many options but I don’t see a popular overthrow of the Islamic Republic and there’s a strong sentiment of Iranian nationalism even among those many human rights

The horror of October 7 was the impetus for Israel’s decision to finally destroy the Islamic Republic’s “ Axis of Resistance” and to confront and and carry out the most successful and daring demolition of Iran’s military leadership and stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, has written on X that the U.S. strikes “ will have everlasting consequences,” and that “ Iran reserves all options” to retaliate.

Haaretz reportedl that the bodies of three hostages in Gaza were recovered, according to the IDF.

The Times of Israel reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran abducted family members of an Iran International reporter on Saturday in retaliation for the channel’s coverage of the country’s war with Israel, threatening to hold them, until the journalist resigned from her

The NYT just reported that Israel attacked Evin Prison and the headquarters of the headquarters of the Basij military group. Evin holds political prisoners and opponents of the regime. There are no reports that prisoners were hurt in the strike, which was apparently intended to

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on Israel’s attack on Evin Prison, where I spent months during the Iran Hostage Crisis, called for the UN to demand the immediate release of all political prisoners. According to CHRI, Iranian security forces have intensified repression

After the Ceasefire: Iran Must Stop Executions and Respect Due Process Accordong to NIAC, following the recent ceasefire between Iran and Israel, many hoped for a period of de-escalation and relief. Instead, what has followed is deeply alarming: a wave of executions and mass

Reports of Internal Conflict over Djalali's Death Sentence: “Great Danger to His Life” According to Hostage Aid Worldwide, a serious conflict has reportedly emerged between Iran’s intelligence services and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over the fate of imprisoned

According to Hostage Aid Worldwide, the reports about the internal conflict over Ahmadreza Djalali’s death sentence were initially shared by Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who posted about the matter on social media. Djalali had been held in Tehran’s

French Nationals Held in Iran Charged with Spying for Israel Hostage Aid Worldwide has reported that according to Le Monde (July 2), Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris who have been detained for more than three years in Iran have also been charged with 'conspiracy to overthrow the

Just wrote a letter to Prime Minister Elf Kristersson of Sweden on behalf Dr. Ahmade Reza Djalali--an innocent Swedish-Iranain phsyician held hostage in the Islamic Republic of Iran for nearly a decade-- who recently suffered a heart attack. I wrote that while the Islamic

I also wrote to the Iranian Mission in New York on behalf of Zeynab Jalalian, a member of the Kurdish minority who has been imprisoned for 15 Years, serving a life sentence as a result of her work to empower the Islamic Republic of Iran'sethnic mimnority Kurds, particularly

In another letter, I wrote to the Islamic Republic's Mission in New York on behalf of Narges Mohammadi, the renowned Nobel Prize Peace Laureate and human rights advocate, urging the Islamic Republic's authorities to release her as a prioner of conscience who was soley detained

Abbas Aragchi, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Rerpublic of Iran says his country has detained a teenage French-German cyclist, Lennart Monterlos, who disappeared last month for “an offense” that Aragchi didn’t detail, French newspaper Le Monde reported. The cyclist was

Hostage Aid Worldwide reported that Richard Ratcliffe whose wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was held hostage in Iran for six years on false charges of espionage by the Islamic Republic, has been advising the family of the British couple, Lindsay and Craig Foreman, who are