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Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal The lawyer for two U.S. citizen detained in Iran says all signs point to their imminent release. Massoud Shafii…

Gholamhossein Esmaili The head of the Iranian Prisons Organization has dismissed recent statements about the use of torture in prisons as "absurd lies." Gholamhossein…

The murder of Fatemeh Bagherinejadianfard was not motivated by theft, her brother has announced, and her body shows no evidence of injury. The Etemad…

Ahmad Zeidabadi Jailed Iranian journalist, Ahmad Zeidabadi has been returned to prison after being granted a 48-hour furlough. Zeidabadi’s furlough was extended for an…

Rostam Ghassemi Newly appointed Minister of Oil Rostam Ghassemi says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps construction base, Khatam-ol-anbia, should turn away from small- and medium-scale…

Mehdi Karroubi Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has urged his son to refrain from leaving the country, assuring him that the "harsh and difficult…

Twenty Iranian universities have announced that in the coming academic year, 40 departments will begin accepting only one gender of student. The Shargh daily…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

The murder of Fatemeh Bagherinejadianfard, the daughter of a former reformist MP, has caused a stir in Iranian Parliament, with MPs calling for an…

Fatemeh Alia MP Fatemeh Alia says it is an “insult” to the people of Iran that jailed Iranian journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi is the…

Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, a top Iranian university, has eliminated 13 branches of the humanities, leaving only six branches of humanities studies for…

An explosion at the Ahvaz oil pipelines in southern Iran caused a fire that took hours to extinguish, just one week after a gas…