“I definitely support the freedom of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran,” Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans who was arrested in Iran in July 2009 told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an exclusive interview right after the trio’s press conference this Sunday. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer [...]

The documentary makers recently arrested in Iran were “engaged in the production of illegal material and provided it to the BBC,” a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary announced at a news conference. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said the filmmakers, who were arrested on the charge of “collaborating with the British Broadcasting Corporation,” were taken into custody based [...]

The two American hikers who were held in Iran on espionage charges say they kept their days strictly regimented, running laps, weight-lifting water bottles, discussing literature and quizzing each other, in an effort to stay physically and mentally fit while in captivity. They spent 781 days that way in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. On [...]

Iranian natural gas exports to Turkey have been halted for the third time this year. Shana, the Iranian gas, oil and energy news agency, reports that Turkish authorities requested the halt in gas flow over the border. A spokesman for Iran’s Natural Gas Company, Majid Boujarzadeh, said gas exports were stopped on Thursday night, adding: [...]

Influential conservative MPs and media slammed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday for repeatedly talking about resuming ties with the United States during his visit to the UN General Assembly. “Expressing an interest in resumption of ties with America and saying in an interview that lack of such relations is a loss for both nations [...]

Iran’s reformist opposition has watched with admiration as revolutions have toppled three Arab leaders, but despite divisions in the ruling elite it looks incapable for now of taking its protest movement back out onto the streets. Mass protests against the 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the worst unrest since the Islamic Revolution three [...]

There are no reports on the condition of Gonabadi dervish Hamidreza Moradi Sarvestani and Kurdish environmental activist Farshad Maroufi. Hamidreza Moradi Sarvestani is suffering from heart problems and his family is extremely concerned about his condition since he is in need of medical attention. He was arrested on September 4th and endured physical and psychological [...]

In a joint statement, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have condemned the Iranian government’s efforts “to silence independent media in Iran.” In a statement released Saturday, the two media bodies point to the recent arrest of “several documentary makers on vague and unfounded accusations of collaborating with [...]

Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says his government is in talks with Russia about building additional nuclear power reactors. Iran’s Bushehr power plant was completed by the Russian company Atomstroyexport at a cost of $1 billion and was commissioned earlier this month. Speaking in New York where he attended the UN General Assembly, Ahmadinejad said Iran [...]

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, said that the second court session reviewing her disbarment was cancelled. “My wife’s second court session at the Tehran Bar Association was scheduled for Sunday, 18 September, but she was not transferred from prison to court, and the the [...]