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Nasrin Sotoudeh Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, is now in…

Ali Akbar Salehi Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has slammed Egypt for failing to respond to his request for passage to visit the…

Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam The head of Iran’s Security Forces says police may be guilty of “some level of neglect” in the arrest of Sattar…

Iranian children’s rights activist Ali Akbar Esmailpour has spoken out against the lack of close supervision of child labour in Iran. Esmailpour told ILNA…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

NATO experts have arrived in Turkey to scout the area for Patriot missile-battery sites along the Syrian-Turkish border. The group consisting of U.S., Dutch…

Sattar Beheshti The member of Iran's National Security Commission leading an investigation into the death of Sattar Beheshti in prison says the head of…

Ali Akbar Mahzoon Iran’s Census Organization says couples must be encouraged to marry at a younger age in order to firm up the country’s…

The head of Iran’s Literacy Movement has announced that more than 9.5 million Iranians over the age of six are illiterate. Ali Bagherzadeh told…

Iranian cyber police have arrested another political activist, opposition media report. The Kaleme website reports that Omid Dehdarzadeh was arrested on Sunday afternoon by…

Maghreb daily The Maghreb daily reported on Monday that due to objections against a cartoon of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that appeared on the front…

Sattar Beheshti Three Iranian labour organizations have issued a joint statement urging the government to pursue the case of Sattar Beheshti’s death in police…