News Archive - 5 July 2017

Rouhani’s Taciturn Chief of Staff May Finally Come into the Spotlight

Rumors are making the rounds about the cabinet line-up of the twelfth administrations, Rouhani’s second in a row. Nahavandian, the chief of the presidential bureau under the first Rouhani administration is at the same time rumored to be leaving the Pasteur Street palace and nominated for direction of one...

U.S. Senate Backs Legislation To Slap New Sanctions On Russia

The bill was introduced amid an intense focus in the U.S. capital on relations with Russia.

When Human Rights Defenders Continue Their Work From Prison

Repressive regimes think if they shut human right defenders in jail they will put and end to their work. They are wrong. A