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caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Three Iranians are among those awarded Hellman/Hammett grants by Human Rights Watch for 2012. Issa Saharkhiz, Keyvan Samimi and Hila Sedighi are among 41…

Ramin Mehmanparast Iran has condemned the new U.S. law signed by President Barack Obama that  seeks to counter Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America,…

More than 500 workers at the Safa Pipe factory have begun their fourth round of protests against the delayed payment of wages and other…

Iran says it has produced its own Bavar 373 rockets, following Russia’s refusal to finalize a purchase agreement for S300 rockets, and preliminary testing…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Hadi Mostafayi Iranian police authorities said today that more and more victims of sexual crimes are reporting the incidents. In a report that appeared…

Faezeh Hashemi Faezeh Hashemi, the jailed daughter of Iran’s Expediency Council chief, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to three weeks in solitary confinement…

Zahra Rahnavard was allowed 15 minutes away from her house arrest on Saturday December 29 to visit her father Sadegh Kazemi, who had just…

The Tehran Police force has announced that 88 “gold and foreign currency brokers” have been arrested, as disputes have intensified between the Iranian government…

Twenty people were killed and 25 others injured in an attack on a bus taking pilgrims from Pakistan to Mashhad, Iran, to visit the…

Iranian authorities say a U.S. plane made an emergency landing at Ahwaz Airport in southwestern Iran after experiencing technical difficulties. The head of Iranian…