While the moderate forces of the Islamic Republic are rallying behind Hassan Rouhani and the conservatives behind hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, the presence of French car manufacturers in Iran is being used as a campaign tool by the incumbent president Hassan Rouhani to win the coming elections.

Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, Iranian political prisoner and founder of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization was released on Friday May 12 after ten years in jail. Meanwhile, another political prisoner Esmail Abdi is reportedly in critical health conditions as he entered his seventieth day on hunger strike.

Ebrahim Raisi, the ultra- conservative candidate for Iranian presidential elections made headlines in Iran and stirred considerable reaction in social media with two meetings with President of Tatarstan and with the head of Iran’s Supreme Council of National Security.

One year after the arrest of Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari in Iran, British government once more urged the Islamic Republic authorities to release her. Meanwhile Zagheri’s friends and colleagues gathered together to demand her release. […]