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Seoul Foreign Ministry Seeks to Defuse Controversy over Yoon’s Iran Remark

Seoul Foreign Ministry Seeks to Defuse Controversy over Yoon’s Iran Remark

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean foreign ministry on Tuesday said President Yoon Suk Yeol’s recent remark about Iran during his visit to the United Arab Emirates was “irrelevant” to Seoul’s relations with Tehran, in an apparent effort to prevent it from spilling into a diplomatic controversy. While speaking to South Korean [...]

S. Korea Votes in Favor of Iran’s Removal from U.N. Women’s Rights Body

S. Korea Votes in Favor of Iran’s Removal from U.N. Women’s Rights Body

SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has voted in favor of a resolution ousting Iran from a U.N. women’s body on Wednesday (New York time), along with 28 other countries, amid Tehran’s monthslong crackdown on protests. The 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution to oust Iran from the Commission [...]

U.S., S. Korea and 7 Others Call for Halt to Violence Against Female Protesters in Iran

U.S., S. Korea and 7 Others Call for Halt to Violence Against Female Protesters in Iran

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and seven other countries issued a joint statement Thursday, calling for an end to “extreme violence” facing Iranian women and girls protesting the death of a 22-year-old allegedly caused by the country’s morality police. “The undersigned Foreign Ministers for country members [...]

Eyes on Iran Art Activation Faces the U.N. in New York

Eyes on Iran Art Activation Faces the U.N. in New York

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (Korea Biziwire) — Iranian artists Sheida Soleimani, Aphrodite Désirée Navab, Z, Icy and Sot, Shirin Neshat, Mahvash Mostala, Sepideh Mehraban, and Shirin Towfiq, alongside artists Hank Willis Thomas and JR, activate New York’s FDR Four Freedoms State Park with a provocative multi-day and multi-media art installation facing the United Nations entitled Eyes on Iran, November 28, 2022 [...]

Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland, Oprah Winfrey, Malala, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Obama & Global Women Leaders from Over 14 Countries Sign an Open Letter Calling for UN Action Against Iran

Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland, Oprah Winfrey, Malala, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Obama & Global Women Leaders from Over 14 Countries Sign an Open Letter Calling for UN Action Against Iran

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s preeminent women leaders in business, politics, advocacy and the arts published an open letter in Sunday’s New York Times calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).  Signatories of the letter include Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s [...]

California City is First to Ask for a Free Secular Democratic Republic in Iran: Pinole City Council Declares Support for Human Rights in Iran

California City is First to Ask for a Free Secular Democratic Republic in Iran: Pinole City Council Declares Support for Human Rights in Iran

PINOLE, Calif., Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, the City of Pinole in California issued to a standing ovation the first proclamation in the USA “asking for a Free Secular Democratic Republic in Iran, and In Support of Human Rights in Iran, Including the Immediate Cessation of Human Rights Abuses on the Demonstrators in [...]

King Sejong Institute in Iran Holds Coursework Completion Ceremony for Korean Language Experts

King Sejong Institute in Iran Holds Coursework Completion Ceremony for Korean Language Experts

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in Iran hosted the 2021 coursework completion ceremony for students at the King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center. Twenty-six students from the advanced course participated in the offline ceremony. They are Korean language ‘experts’ that have completed the entire eight-semester course on [...]

Statement from the Association of Victims’ Families of Flight PS752: Canada’s Forensic Examination and Assessment of the Downing of Flight PS752 Reveals Iran’s Crimes, Obfuscations and Lies

Statement from the Association of Victims’ Families of Flight PS752: Canada’s Forensic Examination and Assessment of the Downing of Flight PS752 Reveals Iran’s Crimes, Obfuscations and Lies

TORONTO, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Association of the Families of Flight PS752 Victims (the Association) welcomes the Government of Canada’s Forensic Examination and Assessment report on the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, released today. That report exposes the Iranian regime’s disregard for human life, failure to disclose the truth and pursue [...]