Workers in the northwestern Iranian city of Qazvin have staged protests in recent days to demand the payment of wage arrears. The reformist website Jaras reported that dozens of workers at Qazvin’s textile industry staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Institute in Tehran on April 16, saying they had not been paid for [...]

Gulf Arab states have accused Iran of interfering in their regional affairs with the alleged aim of “sowing discord and destruction.” At a meeting in Riyadh, ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council called for the international community and the UN to take “necessary measures” to halt such Iranian actions. A statement said the GCC — [...]

Iranian journalist Nazanin Khosravani has been sentenced to six years in prison, Green Movement website Kaleme reported on Monday. Khosravani’s lawyer Farideh Gheirat said, “my client’s sentence was issued by branch 26 of the revolutionary court on charges of assembly and colluding to act against national security and propagating against the regime for which a [...]

While a number of Iranian news agencies reported that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has overruled the resignation of Heydar Moslehi as Minister fo Intelligence, the official website of the Iranian government still carried the news that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved the resignation of Moslehi. The government website says: “The president has accepted the resignation [...]

Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on the United Nation’s High Commissioner of Human Rights to acknowledge recent events in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. In a letter to Navi Pillay, Ebadi writes that a number of Sunni Iranians in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province, staged a peaceful demonstration on April 16 [...]

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami spoke out against the continued detainment of opposition figures and protesters, and criticized the government for failing to resolve the “extraordinary situation” of the past two years. “The year has passed, and while political prisoners have not been released, those who were free have been summoned and put under arrest.” [...]

Two sound-bomb explosions have been reported in the northwestern city of Sanandaj in Iran’s Kurdistan Province. Mehr News Agency reports two explosions occurred last night at about 9:40 PM within minutes apart, and one person was injured by shattered glass. Kurdistan’s security chief announced that the two explosions occurred within minutes of each other at [...]

Iran has condemned the European Union for its fresh sanctions against 32 Iranian officials over alleged human rights abuses, accusing the bloc of hypocrisy and servitude to the United States. “This action is a political one which employs double standards, and it is unacceptable,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying on state [...]

Iran has accused the United States and Israel of creating a computer virus, malware known as Stuxnet, in order to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. State news agency IRNA quoted the commander of the Iranian civil-defense organization, Gholam Reza Jalali, as saying that “investigations and studies show that the source of Stuxnet originates from America and [...]

On Wednesday a Syrian opposition and non-governmental organization that has been working for freedom of speech in this country, has disclosed a confidential document belonging to Syrian Intelligence Service. According to 30mail News agency, this confidential document reveals the Syrian governmental force’s methods of dealing with protesters which is extremely similar with Iranian government’s methods. [...]