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Ali Akbar Salehi Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Salehi expressed hope that the new U.S. Secretary of State would affect a change in what he…

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Shirvani’s film Fat Shaker is the joint winner of of the Rotterdam film festival’s Golden Tiger. Fat Shaker (Larzanandye Charbi) together…

Six Iranian-Kurdish civil activists have been arrested by Islamic Republic security forces in Kurdistan Province. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Ali Motahari Conservative Iranian MP Ali Motahari has slammed the recent wave of journalist arrests for “depriving reporters of their mental and professional peace.”…

Reyhaneh Tabatabayi The wave of journalist arrests by Islamic Republic authorities continued today, with Fatemeh Sagharchi and Reyhaneh Tabatabayi as the latest detainees. Reyhaneh…

Ayatollah Khamenei Iran’s Supreme Leader has called for an end to the disputes between the heads of the government’s executive and legislative branches. Ayatollah…

Abolfazl Ghadiyani Thirty-six Iranian political prisoners have written an open letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, to warn him about…

By Bijan Rohani After numerous warnings from UNESCO, the geopark at Qeshm Island has been deleted from that organization’s list of Global Geoparks. This…

Ali Dehghan Ali Dehghan has become the latest journalist to be swept up in a wave of arrests by Iranian authorities, despite widespread outrage…

Zamaneh has denied any connection or collaboration with the journalists recently detained in Iran and draws attention to the Islamic Republic’s often-used policy of…

Saba Azarpeyk New details have been reported regarding the arrest of more than a dozen journalists in Tehran in the last few days, with…