United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) brings attention to the regime’s consistent suppression of individual freedoms and demands accountability for Tehran's actions. Explore our resources to understand the depth and impact of these human rights abuses in Iran.
Saeid Golkar, UANI Senior Advisor, Op-ed:Iran has entered a critical moment in its postrevolutionary history. Many analyses since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war have focused on the growing…
9:10 – 9:30 AM: No Nukes For Jihad: A Fireside Chat With Amb. Mark Wallace
In the nearly 50 years the Islamic Republic has been in power, threats of “death to America” and the antagonization of the west have been prominent in Iran, said Hiva Wallace, an adviser at United…
The Iran war, which has divided some Republican voters, played a central role. Iranians who support the war broke into chant outside the conference’s main stage. During a panel, women shared…
Kasra Aarabi, the director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, said the repressive measures were most acute in Tehran, the capital, where martial law had been implemented.
“The…
Shelley: “The Iranian people aspire to a liberal and democratic Iran, while the regime continues to impose a radical ideology that directly targets its own population, particularly women.”
Aarabi: “The Islamic regime’s slogan is ‘Death to England.’ It has plotted 20 terror attacks on UK soil—and is targeting our MPs. Yet, British civil servants attended the regime’s embassy to…
The Islamic Republic is known to detain Westerners as hostages, with at least four Britons currently held in Iran, according to United Against Nuclear Iran.
January 2026 will be remembered as the month the Islamic Republic tried to break Iranian society’s political spine through mass violence and fear. More than one million people poured onto the…
United Against Nuclear Iran Ambassador and CEO Mark Wallace and his wife, Hiva, spoke at CPAC in DC 2025 about this threat [nuclear war with Iran and the Iranian regime in general] on Friday,…
Several similar interviews were broadcast from the Tehran rally, which was marked as usual by slogans of hostility against Iran's arch-foe the United States.
Jason Brodsky, policy director…
“Given the difficulty in accomplishing anything diplomatically with Iran—and especially on issues of human rights—a fresh round of U.S. and perhaps Israeli strikes on Iran seems the likeliest…
For a few hours Tuesday, two Iranian provocations against the U.S. raised questions as to whether nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington could be derailed. But negotiations are still expected…
Last week, at the Enduring Music: Compositions From the Holocaust concert organized by the Counter Extremism Project and ARCHER at House 88, in conjunction with United Against Nuclear Iran (…
Kasra Aarabi, the director of IRGC research at advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran and a JC contributor said the school “raises serious concerns about safeguarding and…
The Islamic regime’s brutal suppression of protests in Iran should be headline news. Instead, much of the mainstream media is quiet—because the anti-regime uprising doesn’t fit its narrative.…
The Islamic regime’s brutal suppression of protests in Iran should be headline news. Instead, much of the mainstream media is quiet—because the anti-regime uprising doesn’t fit its narrative.…
Credible reports indicate chemical weapons may have been used against protesters in Iran. Accounts from doctors also indicate that detainees are being injected with substances that induce suicidal…
Credible reports indicate chemical weapons may have been used against protesters in Iran. Accounts from doctors also indicate that detainees are being injected with substances that induce suicidal…
United Against Nuclear Iran has stated that between January 8 and 9, around 12,000 people have died during the protests. The Iranian media also claimed that the Islamic State has intensified…
United Against Nuclear Iran has stated that between January 8 and 9, around 12,000 people have died during the protests. The Iranian media also claimed that the Islamic State has intensified…
Saeid Golkar, senior adviser at United Against Nuclear Iran and associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, at the UC Foundation, did an extensive…
Aarabi: “Detained Iranian protesters will not only be executed, but tortured prior to their death—a requirement under the regime’s Islamic penal code. The Islamic regime has gone into full…
“The Iranian Foreign Minister will not be attending Davos,” the WEF posted on X early Monday morning. “Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in Iran over the…
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar writes: Is Iran heading towards another 1979? The temptation to rely on this analogy is understandable. Images of mass mobilisation and rapidly recurring protests…
“The regime has gone into full brutality mode. It’s only going to get worse.”
Iranian law demands the 800 protesters whoes executions were postponed be tortured before their deaths, says…
“The regime has gone into full brutality mode. It’s only going to get worse.” Iranian law demands the 800 protesters whose executions were postponed be tortured before their deaths, says director…
Most Iranians will still struggle to access Starlink unless huge numbers of the receivers can be spirited into the country. “That of course has its risks. And I think that it can’t happen…
UANI Senior Advisor Saied Golkar writes: "Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained rather than episodic…
. . . With more than 972 executions in Iran in 2024, to the US’s 25, according to United Against Nuclear Iran —Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s rule of over 35 years has been no stranger to the death…
(New York, NY) – As anti-regime protests continue across Iran, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Governor Jeb Bush and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace issued the following statement…
United Against Nuclear Iran Policy Director Jason Brodsky weighs in on what President Donald Trump’s Truth Social message telling Iranian protesters that help is on its way signals.
UANI Director of IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi challenged mainstream media's underreporting the death toll in Iran by highlighting new reports which indicate as many as 12,000 civilians may have been…
Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a non-profit organization dedicated to countering threats posed by the Islamic regime, told Kyiv Post Sunday night that the…
At least 3000 unarmed civilians have been killed by the regime, said UANI Director of IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi. The regime’s suppressive apparatus will continue its campaign of violence unless…
Brodsky: “[T]he Trump administration should reject the Islamic Republic's request for a meeting as it would be construed as an external interference on behalf of the regime when its people are…
Aarabi: “At least 3000 unarmed civilians have been killed by the regime. The regime’s suppressive apparatus will continue its campaign of violence unless it faces targeted military strikes.”…
“The reality is they are scared of Trump.” Iran is “still killing protesters” which means the “US will intervene”, says Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran.…
[UANI Senior Advisor] Tom Tugendhat, a British MP and former UK security minister, told Eye for Iran the moment reflects a system confronting its own limits. “I think this is the end game for the…
Chilling secret documents and videos obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail have laid bare the inner workings of Iran’s ruthless ‘repression machine’—exposing the hidden war room and brutal…
(New York, NY) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Governor Jeb Bush and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement today on the historic protests in Iran:
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UANI Director of IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi & Senior Advisor Dr. Saeid Golkar write: Suppression has become the only answer the Islamic Republic has to the crises it faces. It is for this…
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar and Policy Director Jason Brodsky write: In the last few days of December 2025, during the month of Dey in the Persian calendar, and into the new year, Iran once…
And the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, Jason Brodsky, notes that crowds in Kermanshah are chanting “death to the dictator” and that students at Tehran University were chanting “…
Despite the protests being the largest in three years, Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar from the think tank United Against Nuclear Iran wrote on X that IRGC sources said the regime has so far only…
A regime loyalist in Iran died Wednesday after he confronted demonstrators as unrest over economic problems took a violent turn, state media said. . . . Following the death, [UANI…
Meanwhile, an image being shared by credible Iranian expatriates shows a man sitting motionless in the middle of a Tehran highway as the regime forces on motorcycles move in to crush protests.…
A powerful image circulating among Iranian expatriates has intensified global attention. It shows a lone man sitting motionless in the middle of a Tehran highway as regime forces on motorcycles…
With an economy in free fall, water supplies dwindling, and basic human rights barely existent, Iran’s citizens have finally had enough. . . . For an in-depth analysis addressing all these…
Jason Brodsky, policy director for the US group United Against Nuclear Iran, said that ‘Iran has practised hostage diplomacy since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.’ He added that ‘it…
Experts note that this strategy has its roots in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. "Iran is using hostages as pawns to extract concessions that it could not otherwise achieve," says…
Jason Brodsky, policy director at the U.S.-based United Against Nuclear Iran research center, said that “Iran has pursued hostage diplomacy since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979…
“Iran has pursued hostage diplomacy since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director of US-based think tank United Against Nuclear Iran. “It uses hostages…
United Against Nuclear Iran’s policy director Jason Brodsky told The Sun while they are unlikely to face execution, they could be jailed for years and face torture.
In response, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) launched the Cranes Campaign, pressuring global crane manufacturers to end their business with Tehran. The project successfully convinced companies…
[Tom Kaplan:] When he was creating United Against Nuclear Iran, Mark Wallace sent a letter to Caterpillar and said, "Your cranes are being used to hang Iranians. Stop it." They ignored him. So he…
United Against Nuclear Iran's (UANI) policy director Jason Brodsky told The Sun while they are unlikely to face execution, they could be jailed for years and face torture. He said: "Iran uses…
Jason M. Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), joins i24NEWS to discuss the Iranian regime's practice of hostage taking and its hosting of Western influencers.
Iran’s merciless regime is “fully on its heels”—leaving the Ayatollah's days numbered, a former US ambassador says. But the West will not be able to topple Tehran’s brutal dictatorship, Mark D.…
Why does Iran’s opposition keep failing in its goal to oust the Islamic Republic’s ruling regime? Many scholars like University of Tennessee-Chattanooga professor [and UANI Senior Advisor] Saied…
At a virtual event hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) this week, leading Iranian LGBTQ+ activists shared their experiences of persecution, violence, and resistance, seeking to draw…
UANI Advisory Board Member Irwin Cotler co-writes: "On April 25, 2016, Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster-medicine expert, was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of…
United Against Nuclear Iran's (UANI) policy director Jason Brodsky told The Sun while they are unlikely to face execution, they could be jailed for years and face torture.
“The case of Jamshid Sharmahd looms large, who was also kidnapped from Dubai then taken to Oman and then onto Iran,” Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, commented at the…
"Western feminists and women’s rights organisations continuously legitimise the Iranian regime and normalise its treatment of women. When Sweden’s then trade minister, Ann Linde, who is a well…
Two films “photograph” the desires of a country that has not gone back. Cinema, art, music express widespread disobedience to the ayatollahs' obscurantism. “I don't think there is a people in the…
"Iran’s reported decision in January to detain a British tourist couple is part of a “recurring pattern” that “goes back to the regime’s founding in 1979 with the hostage crisis, where Iranians…
"United Against Nuclear Iran's (UANI) policy director Jason Brodsky told The Sun while they are unlikely to face execution, they could be jailed for years and face torture."
"A British couple detained in Iran could be left to languish in a hellhole jail for years, sources fear. Channel 4 stars Craig and Lindsay Foreman were arrested during a motorbike trip across the…
"Rosen, a senior advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a U.S.-based lobbying group that opposes the nuclear agreement and has pushed for tougher sanctions against Tehran, says Washington…
"Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, wrote on Jan. 8 that Italy shouldn’t release Abedini after Sala was freed. “There is zero equivalence between these two cases,”…
"During his first term Mr Trump pursued a “maximum pressure” policy towards Iran and withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal. In his second term he could push European powers to join him in a “…
"For Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, the nightmare began on May 11, 2022 and has not ended yet. Kohler is a French citizen and educator who heads the National Federation of Education, Culture and…
"Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, wrote that “Tehran is trying to leverage more foreign hostages for concessions.”
“Until there are real costs imposed for this…
"The Iranian regime arrested Italian journalist Cecilia Sala on Dec. 19, the Italian Foreign Ministry, which is “working with the Iranian authorities to clarify Cecilia Sala’s legal situation and…
UANI Senior Research Analyst Jemima Shelley writes: "The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has dealt a devastating blow to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s clerical leadership has long been…
"“Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorists reportedly pressured the victim’s family not to accept a financial settlement to prevent the execution,” wrote Jason Brodsky, policy director at…
"Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against a Nuclear Iran, said Iran “wants to send a message at home that it is still in control despite its losses against Israel” after last month’s air…
"Jason Brodsky, policy director of U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, told VOA that Valizadeh's arrest should be a warning to Iranians with dual nationalities that Tehran's…
"Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran said on X: "Some deeply upsetting news: #Iran regime media is reporting that Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who has lived in the U.S. for years,…
""It is a failure of German and American politics when the Islamic Republic executes a German citizen who has lived in the United States for decades," criticizes Iran expert Jason Brodsky of the…
UANI Senior Senior Advisor Dr. Saeid Golkar writes: "In conclusion: While the Islamic Republic continues to call for the destruction of Israel, there is a growing segment of the Iranian population…
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar co-writes: "Today marks the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was mortally wounded in police custody after…
(New York, NY) – On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community worldwide.
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(New York, NY) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)’s CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement today after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary issued a death…
The Islamic Republic continues to brutally crack down on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. The United Nations has found, “repression continues two years after nationwide protests,” and over 550…
Anti-Islamic Republic sentiment dominated Nowruz festivities in Iran and around the world. “Woman, Life, Freedom” chants resounded from street gatherings in Iran, despite significant risk of…
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar and UANI Director for IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi write: "On Jan. 3, the Islamic State group detonated two bombs in Kerman in Iran, targeting the memorial…
The Islamic Republic’s legitimacy continues to erode in the view of the Iranian populace, leading the regime to enact more violent internal security measures, including wide-spread executions,…
The Woman, Life, Freedom movement has galvanized supporters worldwide, including human rights activists advocating for strategies to liberate Iran from Islamic government, a tyrannical, violent,…
UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar and UANI Director for IRGC Research Kasra Aarabi write: "However, while there has been a lot of global and domestic attention on the suppression of bodies and…
The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which was sparked by the murder of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022, represents one of the most significant domestic threats to regime stability…
"'… Execution is not something new in the Islamic Republic. It’s a part of their identity,' said Saeid Golkar, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee and senior…
Iran executed another Woman, Life, Freedom protester, adding to the over 500 individuals that have been killed by security forces since the protest movement began in September 2022. Countless…
"... The bill passed the House by a 410-3 vote last September, but faced controversy as it advanced through the House. Lawmakers had pursued last-minute negotiations about the bill’s language —…
After over 500 Iranians were killed by the Islamic Republic’s security forces for legitimately protesting their government, Iranians took to the streets and social media on the anniversary of…
"Earlier, Iran expert at United Against Nuclear Iran, Kasra Aarabi, told DW, 'that attack itself certainly has all the hallmarks of ISIS operations in Iran.'
He said that would suit the…
The Woman, Life, Freedom movement has gained new momentum. Videos of Iranians dancing—a direct affront to the Islamic Republic—went viral on X. In an effort to stifle these and other acts of…
The Islamic Republic’s security forces have deployed brutal violence to suppress the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran. The regime secretly executed another protester, the eighth known…
UANI director of outreach and human rights research Alan Goldsmith writes: "There are few places more dangerous for female human rights activists than Iran. The Iranian regime is engaged in a…
On October 28, 2023, Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old girl who fell into a coma after being attacked by the ‘Morality Police’ in a metro station for not properly wearing a hijab, was pronounced dead…
(New York, N.Y.) — Today, ahead of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s tragic murder by the Islamic Republic on September 16, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)…
(New York, N.Y.) — United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following joint statement today following reports that…
(New York, N.Y.) – On Monday, the Iranian regime announced it had charged 516 people for their role in the ongoing…
(New York, NY) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) released the following statement today applauding the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s latest designations of Iranian officials for human…
"Countering Iran’s Human Rights Abuses and Targeting of Americans" with: Ambassador Nathan Sales Hiva Feizi Mitchell Silber Moderated by: Ambassador Mark D. Wallace
On September 21,…
(New York, N.Y.) — Protests across Iran that began in response to a surge in the cost of basic food items are targeting the Iranian regime’s corrupt economic mismanagement. Protestors’ slogans and…
(New York, N.Y.) —This World Press Freedom Day should remind people and nations worldwide of the Iranian regime’s decades-long assault on press freedom. In Iran, journalists routinely face…
(New York, N.Y.) — United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following joint statement today following the release of…
(New York, N.Y.) — Human Rights Day is observed annually on December 10 in honor of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on that day…
(New York, N.Y.) — November 15 marks the second anniversary of the deadliest protests in Iran in 40 years, sparked by significant government increases in gasoline prices and the resulting…
(New York, N.Y.) — Leading human rights advocates and United Nations (UN) officials are calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt the planned execution of Arman Abdolali on the grounds that…
(New York, N.Y.) — Iranian security forces are harshly retaliating against peaceful, widespread anti-regime demonstrations—now in their second week—over water shortages and deteriorating economic…
(New York, N.Y.) – This week, Amnesty International released its annual report, Death Sentences and Executions, on the usage of judicial death sentences and executions…
(New York, N.Y.) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following joint statement today addressing the release of…
(New York, N.Y.) — Last week, the U.S. Department of State blacklisted two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) interrogators on charges of torture and other inhumane punishments of political…
(New York, N.Y.) – Today, as the international community marks U.N. Human Rights Day, the Islamic Republic of Iran is undertaking a brutal and systematic campaign of human rights abuses against…
(New York, N.Y.) – Imprisoned Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, ended her 49…
(New York, N.Y.) – During its 75th annual session this week, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) failed, once again, to shine a spotlight on the widespread and systematic human rights violations…
(New York, N.Y.) – Iran’s cruel execution of wrestler Navid Afkari is an example of the regime’s systematic abuse of human rights. Afkari was sentenced to death over a murder during anti-…
(New York, N.Y.) – According to a recent report by Iran Human Rights (IHR), the Islamic Republic of Iran vastly…
(New York, N.Y.) – As Iran reels from an outbreak of the coronavirus resulting in large part from regime…
(New York, N.Y.) – UANI Chairman Senator Joseph I. Lieberman appeared on Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria Bartiromo on November 22 to discuss the ongoing protests against the…
UANI Senior Advisor and Survivor of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis Barry Rosen moderates a discussion on the human rights landscape in Iran. Mr. Rosen is joined by UANI Senior Advisor Ambassador…
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UANI Calls on Arqiva to End Facilitation of Human Rights Abuses by…
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In Case You Missed It: "To Protect Human Rights, Companies Must Pull Out Of Iran"
Op-Ed By UANI President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, and Board…
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