A few days after the February 14 demonstrations in Iran, news reports appeared that the country’s security and military forces used a new type of tear gas against street protestors. The report indicated that the new gas had resulted in a different type of effect on its victims. Ashkan Monfared, a web blogger and human [...]
World powers urged Iran to cooperate with the UN atomic watchdog Wednesday, otherwise it could soon face further censure for blocking the investigation into its controversial nuclear drive. “We call on Iran to cooperate fully with the (International Atomic Energy) Agency,” the so-caled P5+1 grouping said in their first joint statement to the IAEA’s board [...]
International forces in Afghanistan have seized a “significant” shipment of rockets from Iran which would have doubled insurgents’ strike range, an official said Wednesday. The 48 122mm rockets, which have a range of 20 kilometres (13 miles), are being linked to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and were seized last month in Nimroz, a southwestern Afghan [...]
Three men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison on Saturday March 5th, reported the Iran’s government newspaper. According to the report all three prisoners who were not identified by name, were Afghan citizens and convicted of raping a woman in Varamin in 2009. The report did not mention the age of the three men at [...]
While the Green Coordinating Council had announced the gathering of protesters on Tuesday, unpublished reports suggest the heavy presence of Security forces in all cities particularly Tehran. Green Coordinating Council: On Tuesday we will demonstrated once again, we request the Secretary-General acts upon the release of Iranian opposition leaders: The responsibility of Green Leader is [...]
About seventy individuals of prisoners confined in Ward 12 of Central Prison Urmia,have gone on hunger strike to protest constraints and pressures implemented upon them. These prisoners whom mostly consist of Kurdish and Turkish prisoners have begun their mass hunger strike this morning due to ban of prison visits and phone usage, as well as [...]
Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife are at their home and not in jail, the Iranian opposition leader’s Kaleme.com website said on Tuesday, apologising for previous claims that they were in prison. “In recent days it has become evident to Kaleme.com that Mrs Rahnavard and Mr Mousavi… are under house arrest and so the news [...]
urged the United States on Tuesday to provide it with more information on a former FBI agent who vanished in the Islamic state in 2007, adding it would “make an effort” to find him. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week Washington had seen recent indications that Robert Levinson was being held in southwest [...]
Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani replaced Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts today after Hashemi, a moderate cleric that has been targetted with hardliner attacks for his alignment with the opposition, withdrew his candidacy. Ayatollah Rafsanjani opened the Assembly’s ninth session and announced he would withdraw in favour of Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani [...]
It is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and events to celebrate women’s achievements have been planned the world over. In Poland campaigners pressed for a wider debate on women’s rights and discrimination especially in the workplace. More than 8,000 women ran a 10 km race in Mexico City. Organisers there said they want [...]