University of Tehran student Shadi Reyhani writes a piece on the invisible violence against Iranian women. You know, violence is not always about swollen eyes, broken teeth, and bloody noses. Violence can be the humiliation that comes from a dirty look; when a man looks down upon the fallen collar of a woman’s shirt while [...]

At midnight on June 10, 2011, after nine days of hunger strike, Mr. Saberi suffered a heart attack. After informing the ward’s prison guard, Mr. Daei, we planned for Mr. Saberi’s transfer to the prison clinic. With the help of those present, he was transferred to the area in front of the ward on a [...]

Iran has launched a satellite into orbit, state television reported, a move likely to raise concerns among those who fear Iran’s intentions and nuclear development programme. The report said the locally produced satellite, called Rasad, or observation, was launched successfully by a Safir missile on Wednesday. There was no independent confirmation of the launch or [...]

An Iranian citizen is one of two suspects arrested in Southern Afghanistan and charged with attempting a suicide attack. A spokesman for Afghanistan National Security, Lotfollah Mashal, announced today that he is a resident of Zahedan, a city in southeastern Iran. He was arrested along with a Pakistani national as they were entering Kandahar. Yesterday, [...]

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the “slavers and colonisers” of the West. Host Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a security group regarded as a NATO rival founded [...]

Mohammad Hossein Sohrabirad, an Iranian political prisoner, says he is protesting the lack of adequate medical care in prison by going on a drug strike and refusing his medication. The Jaras opposition website reports that Sohrabirad fell victim to heart complications during his interrogation and it is likely that “refraining from taking his medicine may [...]

Iranian journalist Sam Mahmoodi Sarabi continues to be held in legal limbo at Evin Prison, even as his arrest warrant is renewed after two months. “While they had told us that they would process his file this month, he remains in an undetermined state in Ward 350 of Evin Prison,” his family told the Jaras [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad angered lawmakers Tuesday when he questioned their authority, even as he finally gave in to their demand to create a sports ministry. The latest spat between president and parliament comes after weeks of infighting about who should head certain key ministries, in what analysts say is a test of strength by [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused Iran of backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “vicious assaults” on pro-democracy protesters after crushing its own 2009 uprising. “Iran is supporting the Assad regime?s vicious assaults on peaceful protesters and military actions against its own cities,” Clinton said, comparing its response to Iran’s crackdown on pro-reform [...]

The Iranian Judiciary and prison officials are responsible for the death of Hoda Saber, a prominent dissident who died of a heart attack on 10 June, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.  Saber had been on a hunger strike. According to public statements by Firuzeh Saber, Hoda Saber’s sister, Hoda suffered a [...]