A U.S. government advisory body says that Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are among the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2013 report says the countries should be designated “countries of particular concern” by the U.S. government for “particularly severe” violations — a designation that […]
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Senior cleric decries “damaged” state of Islamic Republic
Ayatollah Dastgheib, the Iranian senior cleric and a member of the Assembly of Experts, says: “The essence of the regime is now under question; the people have distanced themselves from religion and God and are now completely pessimistic about it.”
Iran decries Saudi resolution
Iran has sounded an alarm about Saudi Arabia’s draft resolution to the UN, delivered in response U.S. allegations of a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. — a plot that Iran calls a U.S. fabrication meant to falsely accuse the Islamic Republic.