As Iran kicked off its biggest cinematic and cultural event of the year today, a glaring number of politically motivated no-shows became evident. Famed British film director Ken Loach (pictured) and theater director Peter Brook, also from the U.K., were among the Western artists originally scheduled to participate in the Fajr International Film Festival who [...]
Iran says its forces clashed with a Kurdish group behind the killing of a city prosecutor and seized the man responsible. Haji Gholizadeh, the prosecutor of Khoy city in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province which borders Turkey and Iraq, was shot dead outside his home on January 18. “Last night security and provincial border forces clashed [...]
Blogger Jomhoriyat has published writings by one of Iran’s mourning mothers about her detention in Tehran’s Evin prison. The Mourning Mothers — women who have lost their children in the postelection crackdown or those whose children have been jailed — had in recent months been gathering every Saturday in a park in Tehran but they’ve [...]
On 12 January 2010 Tehran University physicist, Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, was killed by a remote control bomb in front of his house in northern Tehran. This was a clear case of targeted assassination and another example of atrocities taking place in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since June presidential election, the Islamic Republic has intensified [...]
The financial manager of Bank Melli Iran (BMI) has refuted the rumors on declaring bankruptcy by the bank, saying BMI is the largest bank in Iran and across the Islamic world, considering its total assets of around $54 billion. After a recent decision by Finance and Economic Affairs Ministry to ban the withdrawal of more [...]
Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi condemned the Islamic Republic’s government for its violent treatment of post-election protesters and once more emphasized his stance regarding the alleged fraud in the June elections. Today, Saham News, Etemad-e-Melli website, published Mehdi Karroubi’s speech to a group of political figures and reformist leaders saying: “With the passage of time, I [...]
Iran Ministry of Intelligence announced they will soon publish “elating news” regarding the victory of the Islamic Republic in the “soft war” against Iran. Deputy Intelligence Minister announced today that “the lengthy files opened up by the enemies of Iran will soon be closed.” Iranian authorities have repeatedly claimed that starting ahead of the June [...]
Iranian pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has still not recognized the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, said in comments published on Tuesday. “We neither officially recognize the government of Ahmadinejad nor do we compromise with it; rather, we are following up people’s rights and demands with honesty,” she said in an [...]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the international community would one day witness the “destruction” of the state of Israel. Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Tehran, which was attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Surely one day will come when [...]
The United States Senate may take up legislation in the coming weeks that would authorize sanctions on companies that provide gasoline to Iran, the chamber’s top Democrat said on Tuesday. Senator Harry Reid said that he and the Senate’s Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, were “committed to finding a time to do this” and that lawmakers [...]