Islamic Republic of Iran

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• Iranians 21
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• Mandate status 1
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• Military courts 6
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• Minorities 5
• Muslim 22
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• Naturalization 4
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• Protestant 2
• Public health 5
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• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 4
• Rejected asylum-seekers 5
• Religious discrimination 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 13
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• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 10
• Right to a nationality 14
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 3
• Right to leave 7
• Right to life 1
• Right to registration at birth 7
• Right to return 4
• SGBV 11
• Sabean Mandean 1
• Sabians 1
• Security forces 5
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Shia 2
• Single heads of household 2
• Smuggling of persons 3
• State protection 1
• Sufi 3
• Sunni 4
• Temporary admission 1
• Terrorism 15
• Unlawful departure 6
• Visas 39
• Voluntary repatriation 3
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Widowed persons 1
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 9
• Women-at-risk 6
• Work permits 6
• Zoroastrian 19

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• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Iran Tracker
• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iran
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iran
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iran
• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iran
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iran
• Iran Human Rights Voice
• Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdish Women's Action Against Honour Killing
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Persian2English
• RAHANA - Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iran
• ReliefWeb - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• The Green Voice of Freedom
• The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
• UNHCR - Islamic Republic of Iran
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iran, Islamic Republic of
• United States Department of State - Iran
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)