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Kasra Nouri Kasra Nouri, a member of Gonabad Dervishes who was recently released from prison has been once more arrested by Islamic Republic security…

Two more Iranian political prisoners, Mohammad Ali Velayati and Ahmadreza Ahmadpour, have started a hunger strike to protest the situation of political prisoners in…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Five employees of Iran’s National Oil Company have been injured in a land mine explosion in the NaftShahr region of Ghasr-e Shirin Province The…

Asghar Farhadi The acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi will shoot a French-language film in Paris next fall. The news was announced by Memento Films’…

Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been reappointed as the head of Iran’s Expediency Council by the order of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah…

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was questioned in Parliament today while a group of his supporters tangled with his detractors outside the building. Iranian…

Seventy-two Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers were arrested by Indonesian police while trying to cross from Loji to Australia’s Christmas Island. Zamaneh reports that…

Abdolfattah Soltani The European Union has condemned the “harsh verdict given by an Iranian court” to human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani and called on…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Kouhyar Goudarzi Kuohyar Goudarzi, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist, has been sentenced to five years in jail and exile to Zabol. The…

Ahmad Tavakoli Iranian MP Ahmad Tavakoli has announced that if President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not reduce the frequency of his “errors, replacing him should…