Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi says a group of the president’s allies has joined with the people who protested the results of the 2009 election, but his ministry will not allow them to “derail” the coming elections. “The sedition movement and the deviant current are seriously in conflict with the regime and the leadership for [...]
Up to 300,000 Iranians may have had their Google email monitored using security certificates stolen from Dutch firm DigiNotar. The figure came from a report into the breach at DigiNotar which let attackers generate hundreds of fake certificates. The report suggests the certificates were used in Iran to eavesdrop on email accounts. The list has [...]
Ali Reza Roushan, poet, writer and head of the book section of Shargh Newspaper, was arrested at his home and transferred to an undisclosed location. Ali Reza Roushan is a poet who has published a collection of poems called “There is no book” and his poetry has been translated into French. Reporters at Majzooban Noor [...]
Following is a translation of an interview by Fereshteh Ghazi of Roozonline with the mother of Behnoud Ramazani who was brutally killed last March during the Fire Festival in Tehran. The mother of Behnoud Ramezani, a student who was killed last March during the Fire Festival in Tehran, told “Rooz” that she wants the killers [...]
According to the reports from Iran, six people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz (southwest of Iran) early Sunday morning September 4th. The state run Iranian news agency ISNA reported that three of those executed were sentenced to death by the Ahvaz revolution court, convicted of “unlawful” acts based on the articles 108 [...]
A source close to Shahrvand-e Emrooz (Today’s Citizen) Weekly told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the publication has been banned. According to a letter the publication’s management received, the reason for the ban is cited as Article 6 of the Iranian Press Law. The source told the Campaign that “apparently publishing [...]
Iran has yet to decide on a call by Kurdish rebels for a ceasefire in a major offensive it launched along the Iraqi border last week, the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Monday. The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) announced earlier it would observe a truce from Monday and called on Iran to [...]
Iranian authorities have approved a $900-million budget to stop the rapid drying of Lake Oroumiyeh. Iranian media report that the head of Iran’s Organization for the Protection of the Environment has announced that 950 billion toumans ($90 million) has been allotted to redirect water from the Aras and Kurdistan Rivers to Lake Oroumiyeh. Last week, [...]
Iran’s first nuclear power plant has been hooked up to the national grid supplying 60 megawatts of its 1,000 megawatt capacity, the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation announced on Sunday. “Last night at 11:29 pm (1859 GMT), the Bushehr power plant was connected with 60 megawatts to the national grid,” the organisation’s spokesman Hamid Khadem Qaemi, [...]
In the past few days tens of civil and political activists across a number of cities in Azarbaijan have been arrested as a result of their civil protest in support of saving a drying national treasure, lake Orumiyeh. According to reports by Human Rights Activist News Agency (HARANA) the following activists from Maragheh county were [...]