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 [...]
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 [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – This fall, a coalition of Iranian women, along with Vital Voices Global Partnership and For Freedoms launched a campaign calling for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) after the tragic death of Mahsa Jina [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran, on humanitarian grounds, to help address its vaccine shortage, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The shipment of the vaccines will begin later in the day for arrival in Iran on Wednesday to support the Middle Eastern nation’s [...]
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 [...]