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• Adoption 1
• Ahmadis 1
• Ahwazi 5
• Airports 9
• Aliens 1
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• Armed forces / Military 6
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• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
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• Minorities 10
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• Naturalization 4
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• Opposition 25
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• Persecution based on political opinion 23
• Persecution of family members 9
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• Political situation 7
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• Prosecution vs persecution 2
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• Refugees 6
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• Religious discrimination 7
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 17
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• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• Sabean Mandean 1
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• Security forces 9
• Security situation 4
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 11
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 3
• Single heads of household 2
• Smuggling of persons 3
• State protection 3
• Sufi 3
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• Temporary admission 1
• Terrorism 15
• Unlawful departure 6
• Visas 39
• Voluntary repatriation 4
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• Women's rights 8
• Women-at-risk 6
• Work permits 6
• Zoroastrian 21

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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)