In February of 2009, Pouria Shahpari was arrested along with his brother Dariush Shahpari by the Intelligence Ministry. They were transferred to Ward 240 of Evin Prison. According to the Human Rights House of Iran,his charges included anti-regime propaganda, gathering and conspiracy, insulting the Supreme Leader, membership in the Iran Zoroastrian Committee, and blasphemy by [...]

An Iranian man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the murder of a scientist that prosecutors said was an assassination ordered by Israel to halt Tehran’s race for nuclear technology. Majid Jamali-Fashi, a man who looked in his mid-20s, appeared in court to confess the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010, the first of several [...]

The Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) — Even though more than 20 days have passed since the arrest of human rights activist and journalist Kouhyar Goudarzi, there is still no information on his whereabouts. Kouhyar Goudarzi is a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR). He was arrested on July 31st in [...]

Iran has moved some of its centrifuge machines to an underground enrichment site that offers better protection from possible airstrikes, the country’s vice president said Monday. Engineers are “hard at work” preparing the facility in Fordo, which is carved into a mountain to protect it against possible attacks, to house the centrifuges, Fereidoun Abbasi was [...]

Behrouz Javid Tehrani, 30, is a political and student activist. He was first arrested following the July 9, 1999 student protests.  He was sentenced to 8 years in prison for acting against national security. His mother passed away while he was in prison and the judicial authorities did not allow him to attend her memorial [...]

Haleh Houshmandi, Kavous Zargham, Keivan Karami, Farham Masoumi, Vahdat Dana and Afshin Ahsanian are the Shiraz Baha’i citizens who were arrested in 2009 and were later released on bail after being held in the detention center of Shiraz Intelligence Ministry. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, the lower court sentenced them to 10 [...]

Russia has put forward “proposals” to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media reported Sunday quoting the Islamic republic’s atomic chief. “We have held negotiations with the Russians regarding the construction of new nuclear power plants. They have put forward some proposals,” Fereydoon Abbasi Davani was [...]

Iran’s judiciary confirmed Sunday that it sentenced detained American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal to eight years in prison on charges of illegally entering the country and espionage. Messrs. Bauer and Fattal, both 28, were arrested in July 2009 in Iran near the border with Iraq, along with another American, Sarah Shourd. Ms. Shourd [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has appointed Mohammadreza Raouf Sheybani as the country’s new ambassador to Syria. Iranian media report that the former deputy at the Foreign Ministry’s Islamic Republic Middle East department will replace Ahmad Mousavi in Damascus. Last week, the Kaleme opposition website reported that Mousavi is planning to leave Syria. Kaleme [...]

The two American hikers, who according to a state TV report Saturday were sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, are a pair of friends who love to travel and be immersed in other cultures, according to friends and associates. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been in Iranian custody for two years since [...]