Iran’s annual report on human rights violations in the U.S. and U.K.

On Sunday, November 9, 2025, the Ministry unveiled the report covering human rights violations by these countries from September 2024 to September 2025. The report is published in Persian, English, and French.

The report is divided into two sections: “Domestic Human Rights Violations” and “Transnational and International Human Rights Violations.”

Summary of U.S. Human Rights Violations

1. Right to Life, Liberty, and Personal Security

✓ Gun Violence

• Total fatalities: 10,871
• Total injured: 19,867
• Mass shootings: 315
• Mass murders: 10
• Homicide/Suicide: 480
• Defensive gun use: 858
• Accidental shootings: 980
• Gun ownership ratio: 120 guns per 100 people (highest globally)

✓ Police Violence

• Total police-related deaths: 958 in 2025
• Only 2 days in the year had no reported fatal police incidents
• Black people make up 13% of the population but 22% of police violence victims
• A Black citizen is 2.8 times more likely to be killed by police than a white citizen

2. Prisons and Detention Centers

• Extensive use of solitary confinement and indefinite detention continues at Guantanamo
• Conditions in many state and federal prisons are reported as inhumane
• The U.S. prison population is among the largest globally, exceeding the legal capacity of many facilities

3. Women’s and Children’s Rights

✓ Violence against women

• 35.6% of women experienced physical or sexual violence
• Approximately 10 million women are victims of domestic violence annually
• In the first half of 2025, domestic violence rates in 9 major cities increased by 3%
• 81% of women reported harassment or sexual assault

✓ Children’s rights

• Recurrent school shootings, including an incident at a Georgia high school (4 killed, 9 injured)
• Child labor and detention of migrant children at border centers continue

4. Racial discrimination and economic inequality

• Structural racial inequality persists in justice and employment systems
• Poverty, homelessness, and income inequality have increased in major cities
• Economic policies concentrate wealth in the hands of a small minority

5. International Violations

✓ Support for Israel

• Military, financial, and political support for Israel continued during the Gaza genocide
• U.S. suppression of Palestinian human rights organizations such as Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Dameer

✓ Unilateral sanctions

• Sanctions against multiple countries violated economic, social, and cultural rights, including rights to health and development

✓ Cross-border military interventions

• Direct or indirect participation in military operations causing civilian casualties in West Asia, including attacks on Iran officially acknowledged by the U.S. President

✓ Withdrawal from the human rights council

• The U.S. withdrew from the Human Rights Council and refused to submit its national report under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism scheduled for early November in Geneva

6. Conclusion

The report concludes that the U.S.:

• Uses human rights as a political tool
• Faces structural crises of discrimination, violence, and poverty domestically
• Violates human rights globally through illegal sanctions and support for occupation

Summary of U.K. Human Rights Violations

1. Domestic Violations

✓ Right to life & police conduct

• 2 police shootings, 17 deaths in custody, 50 indirect deaths
• Impunity for police, particularly in killings of Black citizens, criticized by human rights activists

✓ Freedom of peaceful assembly

• U.K. restricted environmental and pro-Palestine protests under the Public Order Act and Counter-Terrorism Law
• Groups like “Action Palestine” labeled as terrorist organizations

✓ Migrant and refugee rights

• New immigration laws, including the Illegal Immigration Act 2023, increased detentions and limited asylum access
• By June 2024, over 224,000 asylum cases were pending, with 87,000 awaiting initial decisions, some for over a year

✓ Cuts to public services

• Public service budgets reduced by 11%, defense spending increased
• Violates economic and social rights, affecting access to education, healthcare, and social services

✓ Police violence against women & black people

• Over 747,000 uses of force by police in the year to March 2024
• 18% involved women, 9% involved Black women

✓ Racism and Islamophobia

• Summer 2025 saw right-wing violence against migrants, attacks on mosques, and arson at refugee accommodations

✓ Right to health

• April 2025: over 137,000 patients waited more than 12 hours in emergency rooms
• Severe staff shortages and systemic healthcare crises reported

✓ Freedom of expression

• Anti-terror laws used to limit pro-Palestine activism
• The “Public Institutions Economic Activity” bill sought to restrict ethical support for the BDS movement

✓ Privacy violations & AI misuse

• Extensive surveillance and AI tools deployed to monitor citizens and migrants
• Use of facial recognition on refugee children heavily criticized

✓ Violence against women & children

• Over 1.6 million women experienced domestic violence
• Conviction rate for sexual assault: 1.6%
• Children are 20% of the population but 40% of sexual assault victims

✓ Prison conditions

• Over 2,000 prisoners held under indefinite detention (IPP) without release date, considered psychological torture

2. International Violations

✓ Business and environment

• U.K. companies export low-quality fuel and toxic chemicals to Africa
• Production of banned pesticides such as Paraquat

✓ Participation in Gaza genocide

• U.K. continues arms sales, military cooperation, and political support to Israel
• Only 1 of 413 recorded Gaza violations acknowledged as “possible violation” by U.K. authorities

3. Conclusion

The report emphasizes that the U.K.:

• Uses human rights as a political tool
• Faces domestic crises of discrimination, police violence, and collapsing public services
• Globally contributes to widespread human rights violations through sanctions, arms sales, and support for Israel