Islamic Republic of Iran

• Airports 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 26
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
• Azeri 1
• Baha'i 3
• Burden of proof 1
• Catholic 1
• Cessation clauses 8
• Changes of circumstances in home country 4
• Children's rights 1
• Children-at-risk 1
• Christian 18
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Convention refugee 3
• Country of origin information (COI) 36
• Credibility assessment 35
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 1
• Death penalty 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Derivative status 2
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Domestic violence 2
• Effective protection 1
• Elections 8
• Evangelical 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 15
• Exclusion clauses 3
• Extrajudicial executions 1
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 12
• Gender discrimination 3
• Gender-based persecution 7
• Grounds for persecution 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 3
• Jurisdiction 2
• Kurd 3
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
• Mandate status 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 1
• Mental health 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Non-state agents of persecution 6
• Opposition 3
• Passports 24
• Persecution based on political opinion 52
• Persecution of family members 8
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 1
• Political situation 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Re-entry 2
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 23
• Right to education 2
• Right to employment 2
• Right to family life 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
• Safe country of origin 1
• Security forces 1
• Security situation 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 4
• Social group persecution 10
• Standard of proof 3
• State protection 3
• Sunni 1
• Sur place persecution 7
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
• Travel documents 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Unlawful departure 10
• Well-founded fear of persecution 5
• Witnesses 3
• Women's rights 1
• Women-at-risk 4

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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)