Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning Iranian journalist and a recent graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a master's in political journalism. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy and New Lines Magazine.
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The new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has not addressed recent violence against unveiled women by the morality police, dampening hopes that his government is going to be much different from that of his ultraconservative, deceased predecessor Ebrahim Raisi, who was …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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Russia is battling Ukraine with the help of deadly Iranian drones, or UAVs, the United States and some of its allies allege, contending that use of the weapons violates a Security Council resolution. But the United Nations itself — called …
- Categories: Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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Nationwide protests convulsing Iran triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody last September have tapered off, but as the women-led uprising recedes from the streets, a new spectacle is dominating slowly. It is unnerving the authorities once …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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Billed as the first of its kind in a generation, the United Nations is holding a heavily attended water conference in New York City this week, drawing attention to countries’ needs for sustainable water resources and sanitation facilities, especially in …
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Secretary-General
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As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is fast approaching, a draft resolution is circulating among the United Nations’ 193 countries emphasizing the need for a “just and lasting peace” for Ukraine, while Western diplomats are shooting …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
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Leaders of major democracies are intensifying their denunciations of the Iranian government for its continued brutal crackdown on the protests in the country, which are moving into their third month as Iran has issued four death sentences so far linked …
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council
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Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations stunned journalists recently when he read a contentious statement to them in response to an informal Security Council meeting on the current protests in Iran. The envoy delivered his remarks to reporters …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations
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