By Nazanin Kamdar While state-run media use Europe and U.S. depression and suicide rates to claim that the West is disintegrating, a report by the Aria Strategic Studies Center revealed that 58 percent of Tehran residents suffer from severe and mild depression. Meanwhile, Tehran’s police chief announced that the addiction age has decreased and Tehran [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed legislation imposing tough new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. At a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama said the new measures would undermine Tehran’s ability to fund its nuclear program. “With these sanctions, along with others, we are striking at the heart of the Iranian government’s [...]

Nargess Mohammadi, Chief Deputy of Iran’s Human Rights Defenders was released last night from Evin Prison. The Revolutionary Court has reportedly approved her release on a $50,000 bail. Nargess Mohammadi, who is also secretary general of the National Peace Council, was arrested last month at her home. The National Peace Council is a coalition of [...]

Today a seminar entitled “The New Political Role of Internet and Mobile Phone: Example Iran” took place in Brussels with the presence of tens of Iranian and European journalists, political analysts and social activists. Radio Zamaneh correspondent reports that Ben Roome, Nokia-Siemens representative was questioned about the equipment his company has provided for the Islamic [...]

Amnesty International released a statement yesterday expressing grave concern about the condition of detained Iranian student activist, Majid Tavakoli. In a statement on its official website, Amnesty International writes: “Iranian student leader and prisoner of conscience Majid Tavakkoli, who is serving an eight and a half year prison sentence, has been moved to a section [...]

RAHANA-12 service workers at the Agricultural Support Services Company each with between 7 – 25 years of experience were fired two months ago. The contractor in question, has also not paid for their insurance coverage for the past month. According to received reports, the workers continued to work based on a signed contract and are [...]

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was attacked by a group of plain clothes pro-government elements at Sharif University yesterday. Karroubi’s website, Saham News reports that while the opposition leader was attending the funeral of a reformist figure at the university mosque, he was confronted by what they described as a group of “Basij thugs, yelling [...]

(Reuters) – An Iranian military court sentenced two people to death on Wednesday for the murder of three protesters taken into custody after last June’s contested presidential election, the official IRNA news agency reported. IRNA said the jailed protesters had died as a result “intentional assault and battery,” but gave no further details of the [...]

RAHANA-Zeynad Jalalian may be in imminent danger of execution. Her precise status is unknown because authorities have held her incommunicado and prevented her from retaining a lawyer. Khalil Bahramian, a lawyer who represented Farzad Kamangar, one of four Kurdish dissidents executed without warning in May, explained that his efforts to represent Jalalian have been rebuffed [...]

Amnesty International in a statement released on June 29, 2010 wrote: “Iranian student leader and prisoner of conscience Majid Tavakkoli, who is serving an eight and a half year prison sentence, has been moved to a section of Tehran’s Evin prison where conditions are particularly harsh and unsanitary. He is still suffering from a serious [...]