Freedom House: Iran. Freedom in the World 2017. Freedom House, 2017 [2017. május 17-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2017. május 25.) „The Islamic Republic of Iran holds elections regularly, but they fall short of democratic standards due to the role of the hard-line Guardian Council, which disqualifies all candidates deemed insufficiently loyal to the clerical establishment. Ultimate power rests in the hands of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the unelected institutions under his control. Human rights abuses continued unabated in 2016, with the authorities carrying out Iran's largest mass execution in years and launching a renewed crackdown on women's rights activists. The regime maintained restrictions on freedom of expression, both offline and online, and made further arrests of journalists, bloggers, labor union activists, and dual nationals visiting the country, with some facing heavy prison sentences. Hard-liners controlling powerful institutions, including the judiciary and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were behind many of the year's abuses. There were no indications that President Hassan Rouhani, a self-proclaimed moderate seeking reelection in 2017, was willing or able to push back against repressive forces and deliver the greater social freedoms he had promised. Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi remained under house arrest for a sixth year without being formally charged or put on trial. As in 2015, the media were barred from quoting or reporting on former president Mohammad Khatami, another important reformist figure.”
”The government denies freedom of religion to Baha’is, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, and discriminates against them. At least 136 Baha’is were held in Iran’s prisons as of May 2014. State authorities also desecrated Baha’i cemeteries, including one in Shiraz which the authorities began excavating in April.”Human Rights Watch 2015 jelentése (angol nyelven). Human Rights Watch. (Hozzáférés: 2015. február 7.)
Krisztina, Dócza Edith: Órák kérdése egy újabb háború? (magyar nyelven). Órák kérdése egy újabb háború?, 2024. április 13. (Hozzáférés: 2024. április 19.)
A zoroasztriánusok száma 20-60 ezer közöttire becsült Iran - International Religious Freedom Report 2009. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2009. október 26. (Hozzáférés: 2015. február 17.)
A zsidók száma 9000 alá csökkent 2012-re Jewish woman brutally murdered in Iran over property dispute. The Times of Israel, 2012. november 28. (Hozzáférés: 2015. február 17.) „A government census published earlier this year indicated there were a mere 8,756 Jews left in Iran.”
Freedom House: Iran. Freedom in the World 2017. Freedom House, 2017 [2017. május 17-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2017. május 25.) „The Islamic Republic of Iran holds elections regularly, but they fall short of democratic standards due to the role of the hard-line Guardian Council, which disqualifies all candidates deemed insufficiently loyal to the clerical establishment. Ultimate power rests in the hands of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the unelected institutions under his control. Human rights abuses continued unabated in 2016, with the authorities carrying out Iran's largest mass execution in years and launching a renewed crackdown on women's rights activists. The regime maintained restrictions on freedom of expression, both offline and online, and made further arrests of journalists, bloggers, labor union activists, and dual nationals visiting the country, with some facing heavy prison sentences. Hard-liners controlling powerful institutions, including the judiciary and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were behind many of the year's abuses. There were no indications that President Hassan Rouhani, a self-proclaimed moderate seeking reelection in 2017, was willing or able to push back against repressive forces and deliver the greater social freedoms he had promised. Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi remained under house arrest for a sixth year without being formally charged or put on trial. As in 2015, the media were barred from quoting or reporting on former president Mohammad Khatami, another important reformist figure.”
