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Supporters of Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, demonstrate against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP)

U.N. Committee Flags Iran over Human Rights

by Jordan Dakamseh | Nov 17, 2016 | World

New York, London- A U.N. committee on Tuesday decried Iran’s violations of human rights, mainly the high frequency of executions, the discrimination policy against minorities and the violation of women’s rights. The General Assembly’s human rights committee...

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Saudi Ambassador’s Letter to the Editor of the Economist

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 5, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Below is the letter that the Saudi Ambassador to the UK Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud wrote to the editor of The Economist regarding an article that it published on the 30th of July entitled “Worse than the Russians”: Saudi Arabia and Yemen Curiously, your article on...

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Followers of the Houthi movement attend a gathering to show support to the movement outside the Presidential Palace in Sanaa February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Intensified Gulf and International Efforts to Salvage Yemeni Peace Talks

by Arafat Madabish | May 4, 2016 | Middle East

Riydah- Peace-brokering efforts in Yemen have recently intensified, especially those spent by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). All endorsements were pumped into the process of saving Yemeni peace talks in Kuwait from failure, after they were threatened by a series...

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The President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Khaled Khoja

Khoja to Asharq Al-Awsat: The UN Resolution is Unfair

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Dec 20, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

President of the National Coalition for Syrian Opposition Dr. Khaled Khoja described UN Resolution 2254 as unfair because it put “both the executioner and his victim in the same slot”. He also expressed in a phone call to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Syrian Opposition’s...