Kurdish political activist was hanged this morning at the Central Prison in Orumiyeh. According to reports by HRANA on January 2nd, 2011 a team was sent from Tehran to the Central Prison in Orumiyeh in order to perform Khezri’s execution overnight. However, due to unknown reasons, prison officials decided to postpone the implementation of the [...]

Iran says the two planes it had downed earlier this month are indeed American spy planes and offered to put them on display. While the United States fleet in Persian Gulf had previously denied the report claiming that none of their aircraft had been downed, today, Fars news agency quoted Ali Fadavi, head of Iran’s [...]

Fouad Sojudi Farimany, detained student has been committed to mental institution upon release from prison. Mr Sojudi is a Polytechnic University graduate student, who studied at Sharif university for his undergraduate studies. Before his arrest and expulsion, he had been accepted to study at Amir Kabir university for his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering. Sojudi who [...]

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- In recent days, speculations about the secret execution of Hossein Khezri by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judicial-security system has grown stronger. According to HRANA reporters, on January 13th, Mr. Elahinia, the head of branch 9 of the Execution of Sentences office of the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court told Hossein [...]

Iran slammed the recent anti-Iran demonstrations in Kabul and called on Afghan authorities to identify and arrest the perpetrators of these protests. The Islamic Republic News Agency described the protesters in Afghanistan “mercenary Western elements” today and accused Afghan media of “Western bias.” Fadahossein Maleki, Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan, announced that if these individuals are [...]

Pressure on the Obama administration to consider military options against Iran were eased as the most recent US intelligence reports indicate that Iranian leaders have no definite plan on building nuclear weapons. Reuters reports that a number of US officials believe deadly attempts against the lives of Iranian nuclear scientists and the computer virus found [...]

Iranian parliament questioned reports of bad weather as cause of the recent crash of Iran Air Boeing in northwestern Iran and claimed investigations have so far uncovered possibility of mechanical failure or even pilot error. “It is unacceptable and incredible that right after the crash bad weather was announced as the cause the crash,” Mohsen [...]

Iranian authorities have suspended a Tehran theatre’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler and set up a body to police cultural affairs in a sign of a new crackdown on the arts. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, chief prosecutor in the Iranian capital, told the semi-official Fars news agency yesterday that he had summoned theatre company [...]

WATCH: The protests targeted Iran’s embassy in Kabul. Hundreds of protesters organized by the Afghanistan Solidarity Party have gathered in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul to protest that country’s ongoing fuel blockade, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports Some of the protesters chanted, “Death to Ahmadinejad” and “Hands off Afghanistan.” They threw stones and eggs [...]

Iran has hanged five men convicted of drug trafficking, the state broadcaster website reported on Thursday, taking to 33 the number of executions by the Islamic republic in 2011. The report said the executions were carried out in the western city of Khoramabad, but it neither identified the convicts nor did it provide any more [...]