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Journalist and blogger Shahram Manouchehri was arrested this week by Iranian authorities, the latest casualty of a new crackdown on media activists. The Human…

Rescue workers have retrieved the bodies of 16 passengers who drowned when a boat sank off the Iranian coast on Saturday with 22 people…

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has issued a call to action regarding the recent arrest of labour activists in Iran…

Hossein Ronaghi Maleki Jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been transferred to hospital in critical condition. Iran’s House of Human Rights website reports…

Catherine Ashton The EU foreign affairs office says it is still waiting for the Islamic Republic to respond to its letter from last October,…

Mohammad Khazai Iran’s representative at the United Nations has announced that Iran is not bent on blocking the Strait of Hormiz, but serious threats…

Six members of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) have received severe prison terms from the Islamic Republic judiciary. The Human Rights Reporters…

by: Hamid Mafi Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is the fifth Iranian scientist to become the target of terrorist operations. He was a professor of physics…

Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani The moderate Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is calling for the inclusion and participation of all groups and all political stripes…

Asghar Farhadi A Separation by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has been shortlisted for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.…

Peymon Pakmehr Peymon Pakmehr is the fourth journalist to be arrested by Islamic Republic authorities in the past few days in a new wave…

Emad Afrough A former Iranian MP has provoked a variety of reactions from the Iranian establishment by appearing on television to slam the political…