U.S. authorities said Tuesday they foiled an Iranian-directed plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, a rare instance where Tehran is accused of fomenting terrorism on U.S. soil. Prosecutors alleged an elaborate international plot, with two men, including an Iranian-born U.S. citizen who had been living in Texas, using funding from the Iranian [...]

Iran’s Supreme Court says the case of Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor charged with apostasy, is incomplete. ISNA is reporting on a Supreme Court statement indicating that Nadarkhani’s case has been sent back to the lower courts for a more complete investigation. “After the shortcomings are eliminated and another sentence is issued,” the Supreme Court [...]

“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 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: [...]

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 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 [...]

Ahmed Shaheed and three other special United Nation Rapporteurs have condemned the hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Mollasoltani and called for a halt to executions in Iran. A news release published on the UN High Commissioner’s website is signed by Shaheed, Christof Heyns, Gabriela Knaul and Juan Méndez. On Wednesday, 17-year-old Mollasoltani was convicted of the [...]

Iran on Wednesday publicly hanged a teenage boy convicted of killing an athlete billed as “Iran’s strongest man,” local media reported. Despite calls by human rights group Amnesty International for an 11th-hour stay of the 17-year-old’s execution, Alireza Molla-Soltani was sent to the gallows at the scene of the crime in the city of Karaj, [...]