Three months has passed since the arrest of Baha’i citizens in connection to the distant education university and they are still held in prison limbo. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, the security forces raided the residence of many Baha’i citizens systematically and detained them after searching their houses and confiscating some of [...]

Behrouz Javid-Tehrani, Saleh Kohandel, Farzad Madadzadeh, Mohammad Ali Masouri who were transferred to Evin Prison from Rajaei Shahr Prison, are still interrogated, enduring torture and held in solitary confinement. The transfer of the 4 prisoners took place without the knowledge of their families and lawyers. A close source to one of the prisoners stated that [...]

The medical examination of one of Iran’s Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi confirmed that he is healthy, the Iranian opposition website Kaleme reported. Earlier, the Iranian security forces’ officers escorted Mousavi to the hospital for examination, which served as the basis for the rumors about the deterioration of his health condition, caused by a [...]

The head of the Iranian Parliament’s Foreign Policy Commission says that in the spirit of Russia’s “step by step” plan, that country should take a step of its own: pressuring the U.S. to end sanctions against Iran. The Mehr News Agency reports that Alaeddin Boroujerdi said: “Iran has already taken major steps in clarifying its [...]

The United States retained Iran and its ally Syria as well as Sudan and Cuba on a list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism Thursday, after blacklisting the countries the previous year. In an annual report, the State Department said “Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2010,” citing “financial, material and [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has sent a letter to Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, to provide him with an assessment of the country’s situation of press freedom ahead of his report on human rights in Iran to the U.N. General Assembly in September, the CPJ’s official web-site [...]

Mehdi Mahmoudian a journalist and a member of the “Association for the Defense of Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Iran” and a member of the Reformist party “Participation Front” is in critical health condition at Rejaei Shahr prison. Mahmoudian was arrested following the rigged 2009 presidential election. He was one of the whistle blowers [...]

A senior Iranian general has warned Azerbaijan about getting too close to Israel, underlining fears in Tehran that the Jewish state could use Iran’s northern neighbor to launch pre-emptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear program. Israel has been quietly building intelligence and military links with oil rich Azerbaijan, a largely secular Muslim state, since the collapse [...]

The head of the Tehran Justice Department, Alireza Avayi, said the final verdict in the Kahrizak Detention Centre case will soon be announced, two years after political prisoners were fatally tortured there. In an interview with Ghanoon Website, Avayi commented on the lengthiness of the case, saying: “If a case is wrapped up quickly, the [...]

The Revolutionary Guards will carry on operations against Kurdish rebels in northwest Iran along the Iraqi border despite strains with Iraq, a commander of the elite force said on Wednesday. He also said Tehran was prepared to finance the building of border security posts in northern Iraq to be manned by Iraqi forces. “We will [...]