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Student activist Moshfegh Samandari who was arrested on 1 May 2010 to start serving his 6-month prison term, was released from Babol prison before the due date. According to RAHANA,…

Nasim Sarabandi, a women’s rights and student activist and member of Tahkim-e Vahdat student organization (Office for Consolidating Unity), was summoned to branch 4 of the revolutionary court to clarify…

Investigative research done at Beheshti University on Iran’s street children shows that these children suffer from a multitude of physical and mental health problems. These children often have very poor…

Mohammad Mostafaei, lawyer and children’s rights activist, was summoned to the Shahid Moghaddas prosecutor’s office located in Evin prison. Mostafaei is the lawyer for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and Mohammad Reza…

On behalf of Ayatollah Khameni his ‘Information Office Center’ answered some questions today about the leadership model in Iran. According to his Information Office Center Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: ‘Commit to…

Majid Tavakoli Finally Meets With His Family After 3 Months – Wednesday July 21st, 2010 – HRANA: Majid Tavakoli, well known Iranian student activist, was finally allowed to meet with…

Saeid Torabian who is in charge of the Public Affairs Office of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Union, has been transferred from the Solitary Confinement of the Revolutionary Guard Prison…

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday accused US forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan of backing the bombings such as the two suicide attacks which killed at least 28 people in southeast…

LONDON—The engineering arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said Friday it was pulling out of projects in a giant Iranian natural-gas field, blaming mounting sanctions from the West. The decision…

The Deputy of Cultural and Propaganda at the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said at an IRGC gathering on July 15, 2010, that, “To establish contact with the…

Daneshjoo News – Following a strike that began mid last week by Tehran Bazaar to protest the government’s inappropriate economic policies, by the end of that week, the merchants of…

The Iranian scientist who American officials say defected to the United States, only to return to Tehran on Thursday, had been an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency inside Iran…

U.S. intelligence now sees Tehran developing intercontinental missiles by 2015. If we continue our current strategy, we will not be able to counter the threat. By R. James Woolsey And…

Hojjat al-Islam Mohammad Kazem Bahrami, head of  the Armed Forces Judicial Organization declared in his trip to the city of Ardebil  that  the primary sentence of Kahrizak accusers has been…

The Associated Press By TAREK EL-TABLAWY and YAHYA BARZANJI SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — The smuggling of tens of thousands of gallons a day of crude oil and refined fuels from…

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has run into trouble with a conservative cleric over whether men are allowed to wear ties in the Islamic republic, the news agency…

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iranian-backed militants recently received specialist training inside Iran to help mount an attack on American military bases in Iraq, the top US commander in Baghdad said on…

Journalist and CHRR member Shiva Nazar Ahari is still held in Evin prison in an uncertain condition, while her trial which was supposed to be held on 23 May 2010…

Mahmoud Bagheri, the member of board of directors of Teachers Trade Union of Iran, was arrested by security guards on June 29, 2010 after being summoned to the Zone 4…

TEHRAN (AFP) — Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come under fire from parliament speaker Ali Larijani, a fellow conservative who stood against him when he was first elected in…

Yaser Turkeman who is earning his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amir Kabir University, has been transferred to Evin Prison in order to serve his one year prison sentence.…

A Balouchi youth who was kidnapped by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence seven months ago is at risk of being executed. Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi, who is fifteen and…