Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards expressed concern regarding the political stance of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council. ISNA reports Ali Saeedi told a gathering in the City of Mashhad that Hashemi appears to still support the “regime’s enemies.” “We are still witnessing Mr. Hashemi referring to the head of [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clintonaccused Iran of trying to hijack democratic revolutions around the Mideast and warned Arab nations not to permit intolerance against women and religious minorities, Associated Press reported. Clinton said Iran was clearly trying to use uprisings around the region to further its own goals and foment broader unrest while at the [...]

Four American senators have called on U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to impose sanctions against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a human rights abuser. “We urge you to designate President Ahmadinejad as an Iranian human rights abuser,” Republican Senators Mark Kirk and Jon Kyl, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman wrote in a [...]

Iran has taken all necessary steps to create Halal Internet network. The Iranian net Consortium has been already established for this purpose, Iranian IRNA state news agency quotes the country’s Deputy Vice President for Economic Affairs Ali Agamohammadi, as saying. “Creating Halal Internet network will be a turning point in the sphere of e-government, e-commerce [...]

Iran’s support for the Shiite-driven protests in Bahrain has inflamed tensions between Tehran and its Arab Gulf neighbors, most of which are ruled by Sunni royal families, and raised the prospect of a regional conflict. As popular unrest sweeps from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the upheavals have fuelled regional tensions with political and [...]

The European Union has frozen the assets of 32 Iranian officials for violating human rights in Iran, announcing that they are also barred from tavelling to Europe. Agence France Presse reports that the EU decision was approved two days ago in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, but the names of the Iranians [...]

An Iraqi army raid last week on Camp Ashraf left 34 Iranian exiles dead, according to a U.N. spokesman who on Thursday offered the first independent death toll for the attack that drew sharp rebukes from Baghdad’s Western allies. The April 8 raid targeted the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which seeks to overthrow Iran’s [...]

At least five prominent political prisoners at Rajaeeshahr prison in Iran are on hunger strike to protest being denied the right to visits, phone calls, and temporary leave for medical treatment, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. The prisoners began their hunger strike on April 10 in the prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. The hunger strikers [...]

Len McCluskey, general secretary of the UK’s Unite trade union, today conferred honorary membership on campaigner for union rights Mansour Osanloo, who is being held in jail in Iran. He made the presentation at a meeting of the executive board of the ITF in London. Mansour Osanloo’s union, the Vahed Syndicate of Tehran bus drivers, [...]

The head of the Bushehr Nuclear Plant said fuel injection into the head of the reactor has begun once again, after safety concerns stopped a similar attempt last November. IRNA reports that Hossein Derakhshandeh told visiting representatives of the Economic Cooperation Organization that the fueling process was restarted following a thorough investigation into potential threats [...]