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Simin Daneshvar Simin Daneshvar, the prominent Iranian novelist and translator, passed away on the evening of March 8 at the age of 90, after…

After months of dispute over whether the president should appear in Parliament for questioning, the administration announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will submit to questioning…

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has established a Supervisory Committee for the constitution, despite opposition from the Guardian Council, which is already the…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Ahmad Shaheed The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has released his new report in time for the 19th session of the…

Bahareh Hedayat Jailed Iranian student activist Bahareh Hedayat has been awarded the first Harald Edelstam Prize for her “outstanding courage and commitment to justice”…

Sergey Riabkov Russia has announced that it will propose the elimination of unilateral sanctions against Iran if the International Atomic Energy Agency is allowed…

Ayatollah Khamenei Ayatollah Khamenei today issued an order to establish a Supreme Council for Cyber Space and also appointed its members. Iranian media report…

Nargess Mohammadi – Abdolfattah Soltani The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has condemned the recent sentences handed to Nargess Mohammadi and…

Iran’s offer to begin nuclear talks with the G5+1 has been answered by Catherine Ashton, a representative of the six world powers. Ashton, the…

Shirin Khosravani Shirin Khosravani, an Iranian journalist, has begun serving her six-year jail term for charges of “assembly and collusion against national security and…

Nargess Mohammadi The appellate court has confirmed the six-year jail sentence handed to Nargess Mohammadi, the deputy head of Iran’s Human Rights Defenders Centre.…