IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS

Statement submitted by Amnesty International, Association for Women’s Rights in Development, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, International Alliance of Women and Italian Association for Women in Development, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Amnesty International
November 29, 2012

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/074/2012/en/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde130742012en.pdf

National Report on Women's Status in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Beijing+25)

Vice Presidency for Women and Family Affairs
Office of International Affairs
United Nations

https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/CSW/64/National-reviews/Iran.pdf

National Review on Women's Status in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Beijing+20)

The Vice Presidency for Women & Family Affairs
United Nations

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/13097Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_review_Beijing20.pdf

September 15, 2022

Death Penalty in Iran: Sharp Increase in Executions

By Anissa Aguedal
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
June 10, 2022

https://worldcoalition.org/2022/06/10/annual-report-on-the-death-penalty-in-iran-2021/

European Parliament resolution of 17 February 2022 on the death penalty in Iran

The European Parliament

Texts adopted

February 17, 2022

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0050_EN.html

Input on "the imposition of the death penalty and its impact" to Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

Iran Human Rights
April 2022

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/imposition-death-penalty-iran.pdf

Iran's troubling execution rates show no sign of slowing down in 2022

By Skylar Thompson
Atlantic Council
February 15, 2022

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/irans-troubling-execution-rates-show-no-sign-of-slowing-down-in-2022/

Women and the Death Penalty in Iran: a 12 Year Analysis

Iran Human Rights
October 8, 2021

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4910/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Women_and_the_Death_Penalty_2021.pdf

Iran Human Rights Annual Reports on the Death Penalty 2008-2021

Iran Human Rights
Together Against the Death Penalty
April 2021

https://www.iranhr.net/en/articles/5170/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/Annual_Report_on_the_Death_Penalty_in_Iran_2021.pdf

Annual Report on the Death Penalty 2020

Iran Human Rights
Together Against the Death Penalty
December 2020

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/24/

2010 Annual Report: Dramatic Increase in Executions

Iran Human Rights
February 23, 2011

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/8/

2009 Annual Report: Executions Highest in 10 Years

Iran Human Rights
March 9, 2010

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/7/

2008 Annual Report: At Least 350 Executions in 2008 in Iran

Iran Human Rights
February 24, 2009

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/6/

Iran: Death penalty violates fundamental rights and international law, report shows

International Federation for Human Rights
October 8, 2020

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/iran-death-penalty-violates-fundamental-rights-and-international-law

No one is spared

The widespread use of the death penalty in Iran

International Federation for Human Rights
October 2020

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/iranpdm758ang-2.pdf

Deadly Injustice: A look at Iran's execution of 3344 Executions Since 2011

Iran Human Rights
October 9, 2015

https://iranhr.net/en/reports/15/

https://iranhr.net/media/files/DeadlyInjustice.pdf

Death Penalty in Iran : A State Terror Policy

International Federation for Human Rights
October 10, 2013

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/death-penalty-in-iran-a-state-terror-policy-14075

Iran / death penalty

A state terror policy

Special edition for the 4th World Congress against the death penalty

International Federation for Human Rights
March 16, 2010

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/Iran-death-penalty-A-state-terror

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Report_Iran_2010_En-2.pdf

Iran / death penalty

A state terror policy

International Federation for Human Rights
April 2009

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/A-State-Terror-Policy

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Rapport_Iran_final.pdf

Iran: The last executioner of children

Amnesty International
June 2007

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/059/2007/en/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mde130592007en.pdf

https://queeramnesty.ch/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mde130592007en.pdf

Cruel and Inhuman: Executions and Other Barbarities in Iran's Judicial System

United Against Nuclear Iran

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/cruel-and-inhuman-executions-and-other-barbarities-irans-judicial-system

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/sites/default/files/Cruel%20and%20Inhuman-%20Executions%20and%20Other%20Punishment%20in%20Iran2022-03-30_AG_JMB_CMJ.pdf

The Iran Tribunal

On the Abuse and Mass Killings of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1981-1988

Findings of the Truth Commission,
Held 18th-22nd June, 2012

Iran Tribunal Publication
2013

https://iranhrdc.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf_en/NGO_Reports/report_of_the_truth_commission_122530227.pdf

August 15, 2022

Iran: Leaked video footage from Evin prison offers rare glimpse of cruelty against prisoners

Amnesty International
August 25, 2021

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/iran-leaked-video-footage-from-evin-prison-offers-rare-glimpse-of-cruelty-against-prisoners/

Evin Prison: Mullah's Crime Scene

Ex-Detainees Narrate to Majalla Their Experience in World's Most Dangerous Prisons

By Rowshan Qassim
Majalla Magazine
September 10, 2021

https://eng.majalla.com/node/160631/politicsevin-prison-mullah’s-crime-scene

Forced confessions in Iran: hundreds of political prisoners tortured

Iran Human Rights Monitor
May 23, 2021

https://iran-hrm.com/2021/05/23/forced-confessions-in-iran-hundreds-of-political-prisoners-tortured/

Harrowing realities of Iran's torture chambers

Iran Human Rights Monitor
June 25, 2018

https://iran-hrm.com/2018/06/25/harrowing-realities-iran-torture/?amp

Iran: IHEU condemns torture of detainees, oppression of protests, and denial of human rights

Humanists International
March 15, 2018

https://humanists.international/2018/03/iran-iheu-condemns-torture-detainees-oppression-protests-denial-human-rights/

Iran protests: deaths in custody spark human rights concerns

By Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The Guardian
January 9, 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/09/iran-protests-deaths-custody-human-rights

Few know who is held behind the tiled walls of Tehran's Evin prison

By Doug Sauders
The Globe and Mail
February 19, 2007

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/world/few-know-who-is-held-behind-the-tiled-walls-of-tehrans-evin-prison/article679258/

Turning a blind eye: Why the international community must no longer ignore torture in Iran

Freedom from Torture
December 2017

https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/2018%20iran%20report_A4_final_final_Feb%202018_web_optimised.pdf

"We will make you regret everything"

Torture in Iran since the 2009 elections

Freedom from Torture
March 2013

https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/We%20will%20make%20you%20regret%20everything%20-%20Iran%20report%20full%20version%20English%20March%202013.pdf

Iran: Suppression of freedom, prison, torture, execution...

A state policy of repression

International Federation for Human Rights
Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights
December 10, 2011

https://www.fidh.org/en/region/asia/iran/An-FIDH-LDDHI-report-at-the

https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/iran580anglaisversiondef_3_.pdf

"Like the Dead in Their Coffins"

Torture, Detention, and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran
Human Rights Watch
June 6, 2004

https://www.hrw.org/report/2004/06/06/dead-their-coffins/torture-detention-and-crushing-dissent-iran

August 11, 2022

A man with a loaded AK-47 was arrested outside an Iranian journalist's Brooklyn home

By Josh Campbell
CNN
July 31, 2022

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/31/us/iranian-journalist-masih-alinejad-man-arrested-ak-47/index.html

FBI arrests man with a military-style rifle near the home of a high-profile Iranian dissident journalist

By Jonathan Dienst, Myles Miller and Ken Dilanian
NBC News
August 1, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna40882

Man, 23, armed with loaded AK-47 is arrested lurking outside dissident Iranian journalist's Brooklyn home for two days after she revealed plot to kidnap her

By Melissa Koenig
Daily Mail
July 31, 2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066653/amp/Man-loaded-AK-47-arrested-lurking-outside-dissident-Iranian-journalists-home.html

White House Says Man With AK-47 Who Stalked Dissident Journalist in Brooklyn Was Agent for Iranian Government

By Josh Dickey
The Wrap
August 4, 2022

https://www.thewrap.com/iranian-journalist-masih-aliejad-ak-47-stalk-agent-iran/amp/

'It made me more determined': Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad won't stop reporting after Salman Rushdie stabbing

By Katherine Jacobsen
The Committee to Protect Journalists
August 19, 2022

https://cpj.org/2022/08/it-made-me-more-determined-iranian-american-journalist-masih-alinejad-wont-stop-reporting-after-salman-rushdie-stabbing/

Trends in Iranian External Assassination, Surveillance, and Abduction Plots

By Matthew Levitt
Combatting Terrorisms Center

February 2022

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/trends-in-iranian-external-assassination-surveillance-and-abduction-plots/

Timeline: Iran's assassinations and plots to kill dissidents living abroad

Al Arabiya
July 16, 2021

https://english.alarabiya.net/amp/features/2021/07/16/Timeline-Iran-s-assassinations-and-plots-to-kill-dissidents-living-abroad

With history of killings, abductions Turkey is no safe haven for Iranian dissidents

By Yaghoub Fazeli
Al Arabiya
June 26, 2020

https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2020/06/26/With-history-of-killings-abductions-Turkey-is-no-safe-haven-for-Iranian-dissidents

Turkey Convicts 14 Accused of Killing Iranian Dissident

By Saeed Abdulrazzak
Ashargh Al-Awsat
July 8, 2022

https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3747461/turkey-convicts-14-accused-killing-iranian-dissident

Exclusive: Iranian diplomats instigated killing of dissident in Istanbul, Turkish officials say

Reuters
March 27, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-iran-killing-exclusive-idUSKBN21E3FU

Diplomat Assassins: Who Does Iran Kill Abroad and Why?

By Faramarz Davar
Iran Wire
November 18, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/features/67508

Iranian diplomat convicted of planning attack on opposition

By Samuel Petrequin
AP News
February 4, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/iran-trials-antwerp-france-belgium-6005db14421f60e003cfcf5a32145414

Transnational Repression: How Iran Haunts and Kills its Critics Around the World

Iran Wire
November 18, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/70803

A Chronology of Tehran's Kidnappings and Killings Abroad

By Faramarz Davar
Iran Wire

Part 1
November 18, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/70809

Part 2
November 23, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/70825

Part 3
November 26, 2021

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/70846

Without a Definitive, Coordinated Response from the International Community, Iran's Violence Abroad will not Cease

Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights
July 27, 2021

https://www.iranrights.org/newsletter/issue/120

Iranian Dissident Brutally Murdered in Toronto

Iran Wire
October 23, 2020

https://iranwire.com/en/features/67859

Tehran Continues Its Terror Campaign In Europe - Will Europeans Respond?

By Alireza Nader and Benjamin Weinthal
Radio Farda
July 22, 2020

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/tehran-continues-its-terror-campaign-in-europe/30741116.html

No Safe Haven: Iran's Global Assassination Campaign

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
May 2008

https://iranhrdc.org/no-safe-haven-irans-global-assassination-campaign/amp/

https://iranhrdc.org/download/1000014049/

Killing of Iranian dissenters: 'Bloody trail back to Tehran'

By Rick Atkinson
The Washington Post
November 21, 1993

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/11/21/killing-of-iranian-dissenters-bloody-trail-back-to-tehran/0a28474b-9ab1-485f-9949-fc18882fa909/

August 09, 2022

Execution rate doubled in Iran, says Amnesty

Iran has executed at least 251 people in the first half of 2022, including women defending themselves against domestic violence.

Deutsche Welle
August 12, 2022

https://amp.dw.com/en/execution-rate-doubled-in-iran-says-amnesty/a-62785618

Iran: Horrific wave of executions must be stopped

Amnesty International
July 27, 2022

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/07/iran-horrific-wave-of-executions-must-be-stopped/

Rights groups denounce Iran 'execution spree'

AFP
Al Arabiya
July 27, 2022

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/07/27/Rights-groups-denounce-Iran-execution-spree-

Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief

Iran Human Rights
July 11, 2022

https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/07/heightened-reign-of-terror-in-iran-under-new-intelligence-chief/

Iran: UN experts alarmed by civil society crackdown

High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations
June 15, 2022

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/06/iran-un-experts-alarmed-civil-society-crackdown

August 07, 2022

EU condemns death sentences for two women in Iran

Reuters
September 13, 2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-condemns-death-sentences-two-women-iran-2022-09-13/

Iran: Rights groups slam death sentences for LGBTQ activists

Deutsche Welle
September 9, 2022

https://amp.dw.com/en/iran-rights-groups-slam-death-sentences-for-lgbtq-activists/a-63069473

Diagnosing Identities, Wounding-Bodies

Justice For Iran
June 24, 2014

https://justice4iran.org/9226/

Denied Identity: Human Rights Abuses Against Iran's LGBT Community

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
November 2013

https://iranhrdc.org/denied-identity-human-rights-abuses-against-irans-lgbt-community/amp/

https://outrightinternational.org/sites/default/files/Denied-Identity.pdf

Iran: Discrimination and Violence Against Sexual Minorities

Laws, Policies Put Already Vulnerable People at Even Greater Risk

Human Rights Watch
December 15, 2010

https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/12/15/iran-discrimination-and-violence-against-sexual-minorities

"We Are a Buried Generation"

Discrimination and Violence against Sexual Minorities in Iran

Human Rights Watch
December 15, 2010

https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/12/15/we-are-buried-generation/discrimination-and-violence-against-sexual-minorities

Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct

Human Rights Watch
November 21, 2005

https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/11/21/iran-two-more-executions-homosexual-conduct

Iran's War on LGBT Citizens

United Against Nuclear Iran

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/irans-war-on-lgbt-citizens

August 06, 2022

Iranian Teachers Hold Another Nationwide Protest Amid Arrests And Crackdown

Iran International
June 16, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202206164712

Iran rounds up teachers as protests gain momentum

Iranian teachers are joining in the protest movement against President Raisi's administration, but security forces are responding quickly to stop them.

Al-Monitor
June 16, 2022

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/iran-rounds-teachers-protests-gain-momentum

Iran: Release Detained Teacher Activists

More Than 20 Teachers detained

Human Rights Watch
May 5, 2022

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/05/05/iran-release-detained-teacher-activists

Iranian Teachers Beaten And Arrested During Labor Day Protests

Iran International
May 1, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202205018106

Teachers Protest Again In Several Iranian Cities, With 30 Reportedly Detained

Radio Farda
April 21, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-teachers-protest/31814521.html

Reformist Paper In Iran Cites Teacher Protests In More Than 100 Cities

Radio Farda
February 20, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-teachers-protests-100-cities/31712708.html

The Fight for Teachers' Rights Exposes the Government's Illegitimacy

By Javad Motevali
Iran Wire
February 11, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/teachers-rights/71296

Iranian Teachers Stage Protests in 200 Cities, Demanding Better Pay

By Roshanak Astaraki
Kayhan Life
February 9, 2022

https://kayhanlife.com/society/human-rights/iranian-teachers-stage-protests-in-200-cities-demanding-better-pay/

'They Won't Listen. So We Take to the Streets': Teachers' Protests Continue

By Javad Motevali
Iran Wire
January 14, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/teachers-rights/71115

Furious Teachers Hold Fourth Rallies Over Fair Pay and Jailed Colleagues

Iran Wire
January 13, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/teachers-rights/71108

Iran clamps down on teachers demanding fair pay

Iran's teachers are protesting poor salaries and working conditions in the face of runaway inflation. The government, however, is treating them like criminals.

Deutsche Welle
October 4, 2021

https://amp.dw.com/en/iran-clamps-down-on-teachers-demanding-fair-pay/a-59401317

Dozens Of Teachers Arrested In Iran During Protests

Radio Farda
May 3, 2019

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/dozens-of-teachers-arrested-in-iran-during-protests/29917968.html

Iranian teachers strike in protest at tough living conditions

Middle East Monitor
March 10, 2017

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170310-iranian-teachers-strike-in-protest-at-tough-living-conditions/amp/

Iran cracks down on teachers' pay protests

By Robert Tait
The Guardian
March 16, 2007

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/16/iran.roberttait

Absolute Illiteracy Affects 8-11 Million People In Iran

Radio Farda
July 9, 2019

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/absolute-illiteracy-affects-8-11-million-people-in-iran/30045351.html

Iran: Labor Protests Surge

Unpaid Wages, Unsafe Work Conditions, Arbitrary Arrests, Prosecutions

Human Rights Watch
April 29, 2022

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/29/iran-labor-protests-surge

August 03, 2022

Iranian Pensioners Protest Again, Demand Full Hike In Pensions As Promised

Radio Farda
July 21, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-pensioners-protest-38-percent/31954146.html

Retirees Hold Another Round Protests Against Iran's Government

Iran International
July 2, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202207023087

Iranian Pensioners Continue Protests Amid Economic Woes

Radio Farda
June 7, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-protests-economy-pensioners/31887560.html

Videos: Pensioners Across Iran Protest Government 'Deceit'

Iran Wire
June 7, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/economy/104618-retirees-hold-mass-protests-in-iran-over-social-security-deceit

"Suffering" Iranian Retirees Joining Nationwide Protests Against Chronic State Failures

Center for Human Rights in Iran
January 19, 2021

https://iranhumanrights.org/2021/01/suffering-iranian-retirees-joining-nationwide-protests-against-chronic-state-failures-swo/

August 01, 2022

UN human rights experts urge Iran to abandon restrictive internet bill

The High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations
March 1, 2022

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/un-human-rights-experts-urge-iran-abandon-restrictive-internet-bill

Iran: Human Rights Groups Sound Alarm Against Draconian Internet Bill

Joint Statement by 50+ Rights Groups

Human Rights Watch
March 17, 2022

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/17/iran-human-rights-groups-sound-alarm-against-draconian-internet-bill

Bill Increasing Surveillance and Censorship of Internet Moves Forward in Iran

Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 24, 2022

https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/02/bill-increasing-surveillance-and-censorship-of-internet-moves-forward-in-iran/

As the world focuses on Ukraine, Iran is on the verge of becoming an internet black hole

The regime is about to pass a new law that would criminalise VPNs and stifle any remaining internet freedoms in the country

By Raksha Kumar
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
April 5, 2022

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/world-focuses-ukraine-iran-verge-becoming-internet-black-hole

Iran: Parliament moves to ratify central elements of oppressive Internet Bill

Article 19
February 22, 2022

https://www.article19.org/resources/iran-parliament-ratifies-central-elements-of-oppressive-internet-bill/

Iran's Leaders Are Scared of the Internet

They should be more scared of shutting it off.

By Kourosh Ziabari
Foreign Policy
June 6, 2022

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/06/iran-internet-protection-bill-curbs-restrictions-unrest/

Iran's 'User Protection Bill' Shelved by MPs

Iran Wire
February 23, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/technology/71355/

Iran's Parliament Adopts Bill To Further Restrict Internet

Iran International
February 22, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202202228591

Iranian bill aims to reinforce "digital wall" and online censorship

Reporters Without Borders
September 24, 2020

https://rsf.org/en/iranian-bill-aims-reinforce-digital-wall-and-online-censorship

Iran's parliament moves forward with troubling bill to further restrict internet

The Committee to Protect Journalists
November 1, 2021

https://cpj.org/2021/11/iran-parliament-bill-restrict-internet/amp/

New "Protection" Bill on Internet Freedom

By Mahsa Alimardani
The Iran Primer
February 23, 2022

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2021/oct/14/internet-freedom-iran-and-new-protection-bill

Iran: Outrage after government puts Google on Safe Search for all Iranians

Middle East Eye
July 30, 2022

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-google-safe-search-outrage

July 29, 2022

Covid-19 Cases Multiplying In Iran

Iran International
July 9, 2022

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202207095308

Iran leader bans import of U.S., UK COVID-19 vaccines, demands sanctions end

By Parisa Hafezi
Reuters
January 8, 2021

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-iran-int-idUSKBN29D0YC

'There isn't a single stretcher left' in Iran as 'apocalyptic' wave of Covid-19 hits

Iranians are facing a fourth wave of Covid-19 and it is shaping up to be the worst since the start of the pandemic. According to official figures, there are no beds left in life support units anywhere in Iran. And there are no beds available in any units of the 100 hospitals in Tehran, the capital. With no hope of rapid, widespread vaccination any time soon, healthcare workers are at crisis point.

By Alijani Ershad
France 24
The Observers
April 29, 2021

https://amp.observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210507-there-isn-t-a-single-stretcher-left-in-iran-as-apocalyptic-wave-of-covid-19-hits

Iran At Risk Of COVID-19 Fifth Wave As Homegrown Vaccine Campaign Stalls

Reuters
Radio Farda
July 14, 2021

https://www.rferl.org/amp/iran-at-risk-of-covid-19-fifth-wave-as-homegrown-vaccine-campaign-stalls/31356376.html

Iran facing its deadliest coronavirus surge after banning import on US vaccines

Ayatollah Khamanei banned US and UK vaccine imports in January.

By Guy Davies
ABC News
August 12, 2021

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/iran-facing-deadliest-coronavirus-surge-banning-import-us/story?id=79406699

Iran: Government Mismanagement Compounds Covid-19 Crisis

Vaccine Prohibitions, Poor Transparency Undermining Response

Human Rights Watch
August 19, 2021

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/19/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis

Iran's COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Mission Critical

By John Calabrese
Middle East Institute
August 17, 2021

https://www.mei.edu/publications/irans-covid-19-pandemic-response-mission-critical

Iran confronts coronavirus amid a 'battle between science and conspiracy theories'

Sanctions, distrust, and misinformation hamper pandemic response

By Richard Stone
Science
March 29, 2020

https://www.science.org/content/article/iran-confronts-coronavirus-amid-battle-between-science-and-conspiracy-theories

Iranian authorities revoke approval for MSF coronavirus treatment center

MSF remains ready to deploy its emergency team and inflatable 50-bed hospital elsewhere in Iran or to other countries urgently needing support.

Doctors Without Borders
March 24, 2020

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/iranian-authorities-revoke-approval-msf-coronavirus-treatment-center

Iranian Officials Stole More Than $1 Billion in Humanitarian Coronavirus Funds, Pompeo Says

By Adam Kredo
The Washington Free Beacon
March 23, 2020

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-officials-stole-more-than-1-billion-in-coronavirus-funds-pompeo-says/amp/

IranWire Exclusive: Document Proves the Iranian Government Ignored Warnings about Coronavirus

By Shahed Alavi
Iran Wire
March 20, 2020

https://iranwire.com/en/features/66831

Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons

Amnesty International
July 31, 2020

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/iran-leaked-letters-reveal-state-denial-of-covid19-crisis-in-prisons/

Iran's Covid death toll may be four times the government's official tally, says top doctor

Iran's doctors are urging the government to take decisive action, citing "unacceptable mortality rates."

By Dan De Luce and Leila Gharagozlou
NBC News
Oct. 28, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1245028

Timeline: Six Waves of COVID-19

The Iran Primer
March 22, 2022

https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2021/mar/23/one-year-covid-timeline

Treasury Issues Additional COVID-19-related Sanctions Authorizations and Guidance

U.S. Department of the Treasury
June 17, 2021

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0234

Guidance on the Sale of Food, Agricultural Commodities, Medicine, and Medical Devices by Non-U.S. Persons to Iran

U.S. Department of the Treasury
Office of Foreign Assets Control
July 25, 2013

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/iran_guidance_med.pdf

Extract

"The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is issuing this Guidance in response to inquiries it has received from medical suppliers and financial institutions with regard to the humanitarian exceptions to sanctions on Iran. As we have stated in previous guidance, the U.S. maintains broad authorizations and exceptions that allow for the sale of food, medicine, and medical devices by U.S. persons or from the United States to Iran. U.S. sanctions laws provide similar allowances for sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to Iran by non-U.S. persons."