Iran on Monday hanged in public three men convicted of rape and armed robbery in the eastern city of Zabol, the Fars news agency reported. The report identified the convicts as Baboddin Barkazai, Mohammad Poudineh and Valioallah Meer without giving further details. The latest hangings bring to 159 the number of executions reported in Iran [...]
Iran must stop the United Nations human Rights investigator from coming to the country, the deputy of the Iranian Parliament’s human rights committee said today. Mohammad Karim Abed told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that the accusations of human rights violations against Iran are a “diversionary tactic” and, in fact, it is the U.S. [...]
A number of Iranian MPs threatened on Sunday to impeach Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi for appointing an aide to the president’s underfire chief of staff as one of his deputies. Salehi on Saturday appointed Mohammad Sahrif Malekzadeh as a deputy foreign minister in charge of administrative and financial affairs. Malekzadeh was a top official [...]
Twelve Iranian political prisoners have started a hunger strike to protest the deaths of the two Nationalist-religious political prisoners in the past month, Haleh Sahabi and Reza Hoda Saber. Kaleme cites a letter provided to the opposition site by “anonymous supporters of the Green Movement at Evin Prison.” The strikers include jailed journalists and political [...]
The Intelligence Ministry agents have identified her in the streets of Tehran and have transferred her to Evin Prison as a “special case”. There have been no reports as to her condition. Mansoureh Behkish has held a memorial for the victims of the 1988 mass executions who were buried in Khavaran Cemetry along with families [...]
Behrouz Javid-Tehrani was arrested in June of 2005 and spent 3 months in solitary confinement under physical and psychological pressure. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, Javid-Tehrani made a complaint against his interrogators for the injuries sustained on his head during the interrogations but his complaint was never reviewed by the authorities. He [...]
The Kurdistan Regional Government says seven Iranian soldiers were killed by landmines on Thursday. General Jabbar Yavar, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, told Zamaneh’s correspondent: “Yesterday, a border forces vehicle entered a land-mine field in the Iran-Iraq border region and seven Iranian soldiers were killed.” General Yavar added that the explosions took place [...]
A commemoration service for Reza Hoda Saber, the jailed Iranian journalist who died of a massive heart attack 10 days into a hunger strike, was held under strict security measures in Tehran. Kaleme reports that more than 2,000 people attended, including Saber’s fellow Nationalist-Religious activists and several senior political reformists. More than 200 security officers [...]
Two Iranian doctors who were jailed three years ago for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government were awarded a global health prize for their efforts to treat patients with HIV. Kamiar and Arash Alaei were arrested in June 2008 and accused of communicating with the United States in a bid to unseat the regime of [...]
Mahmoud Ahamdinejad has made it clear that Iran has no intention of building nuclear weapons, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Accordign to Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, the declaration came after a meeting between Ahamdinejad, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, held during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) sumit in Astana, [...]