Fighting between Iranian military forces and Kurdish separatists has displaced hundreds of villagers in the border regions of northern Iraq, the Red Cross said on Monday. In addition, Iranian shelling killed two villagers and wounded two others before dawn in Sidakan district, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Arbil, said Ismail Maqsud, head of [...]
Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah AliMohammad Dastgheib says security and military forces are creating insecurity in the country, and he accused the judiciary of blindly following their orders. The Shiraz representative in the Assembly of Experts told Hadis-e Sarv website that, under such conditions, any talk of an obligation to participate in the elections is redundant. [...]
ran has accused the U.S. and Israel for the assassination of an Iranian scientist on Saturday amid growing concerns of Iranian nuclear advancements. Darioush Rezai-Nejad of Tehran was killed and his wife injured by motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of his home, according to the New York Times, marking the fourth Iranian killed possibly linked to the country’s [...]
The authorities at Evin prison have informed Mohammad Davari, journalist and political prisoner, that his previous 5 year prison sentence has now been increased to 6 years. Davari reportedly received this news while serving his 5 year prison sentence at Evin’s ward 350. The additional one year prison sentence is reportedly as a result of [...]
She has informed her family of her transfer to the Langaroud Prison in Qom on the day of her arrest. Fatemeh Masjedi and Maryam Bidgoli had been arrested earlier and later released on bail. The court sentenced them to one year in prison and a monetray fine for ant-regime propaganda by membership in the feminist [...]
The following is an English translation of an editorial published on Gooya News for Pegah Ahangarani, an Iranian actress arrested in Iran . At the beginning of the 1979 Revolution, the ladies known as the *Zeynab Sisters would wear plastic slippers along with their black chadors (long fabric worn by Iranian women as hijab). In [...]
Iranian MP Ahmad Tavakoli has accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of blocking the publication of accurate and timely data on the national economy. Tavakoli, who is also the head of Parliament’s research committee, said the information is being withheld from the Iranian public on Ahmadinejad’s direct orders. He said such actions mislead both officials and citizens, and [...]
A month ago, Marzieh Vafamehr, an actress and documentary producer was detained and sent to the notorious Gharchak-Varamin prison; a place known as a torture chamber that possesses the bare minimum facilities. Her husband Nasser Taghvaie said that the accusations against his wife are “legal” (according to Sharia law) and not political. Marzieh Vafamehr’s colleagues, actresses Pegah [...]
Iran has summoned the German charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the fact that Abdolrahman Haj-Ahmadi, the leader of the militant Kurdish group PJAK, is now in Germany. IRNA reports that in the absence of the German ambassador, Iran’s Foreign Ministry called upon the charge d’affaires to explain the PJAK leader’s presence in Germany. The [...]
Afghan children are still being denied entry into Iranian schools, says Afghan Ministry representative in Iran, despite the recent directive from the president’s office that removed all enrollment restrictions for foreign school-age children without status. The daily newspaper Etemad reports that while the directive was issued seven months ago, 140,000 Afghan children, who live in Iran [...]