A protester has been shot and killed at 7th Tir Square in central Tehran, according to several eyewitness reports on opposition websites. The news comes amid reports that protesters are gathering in several parts of the city, responding to the opposition’s call to rally in commemoration of the two people killed during protests last Monday. [...]

At the threshold of the next proposed anti-government demonstrations, security forces have begun sealing the entrance of the MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard’s home with an iron gate. A number of civil servants and hospital workers in the vicinity have reported that the security officers are quickly covering the entrance with iron bars. Iranian opposition [...]

People are demonstrating at streets leading to Valiasr, at this point we can say the Green Movement has come to the streets. مردم در خیابان های منتهی به چهارراه ولیعصر جمع میشوند، در حال حاضر میشود گفت جنبش سبز به خیابان آمده است 3:20 According to our sources a large group of sporadic people can [...]

Iran’s opposition has invited Iranians to attend a protest rally in Tehran and other cities on February 20 to mark a week since the deaths of two people in earlier demonstrations. An opposition website kaleme.com said the demonstrations would be a “fight against religious dictatorship” in Iran. Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned of a [...]

Two German reporters were arrested in Iran last year for reporting on a woman sentenced to death by stoning. Now, after four months in Iranian custody, the two have been released to German consular officials. Two German reporters detained in Iran for four months have been freed, Germany’s foreign ministry announced on Saturday, after their [...]

Several Iranian councils and associations based outside Iran have organized solidarity gatherings to take place today and tomorrow in support of the people’s protests in Iran. The demonstrations will be held in 20 different cities across the world in denunciation of the state’s “bloody oppression” of protesters and “the widespread arrests and growing violence of [...]

Ayatollah Jannati, the hardline cleric and Friday Mass Imam in Tehran, today advised the judiciary to seal the opposition leaders in their homes. “The doors to the homes of these individuals must be shut. They should be cut off from everyone; all their telephones, internet and communication devices blocked,” Jannati said. “In effect they should [...]

According to reports from Jaras, as of Tuesday February 15th, 2011 and after Mir Hossein Mousavi published a short statement thanking the noble citizens of Iran for their extensive presence in the February 14th [25 Bahman] rallies [in support of the people of Egypt and Tunisia], Mousavi’s residence has been completely surrounded by security officers, [...]

Ghaneh Jaleh, brother of Saleh Jaleh, the man killed during Monday’s mass protests in Tehran, was arrested after giving a telephone interview to foreign media about his brother. Opposition websites report that Islamic Republic authorities arrested Ghaneh Jaleh after he spoke to Voice of America. Ghaneh Jaleh reportedly told VOA that his brother was not [...]

Two days after the Bahman 25 (February 14) protests, supporters of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, were shown on national TV chanting slogans in Qom calling for the death of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. The moderate cleric is the chairman of Iran’s two major governing bodies, the Assembly of Experts and the Expediency Council. The crowd [...]