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Farid Salavati Iranian jounalist Farid Salavati, who was arrested last week after reporting on a gang rape in Khomeini Shahr, was released today. Iran…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Ghassem Yaghoubi While the Iranian judiciary says it intends to take severe action against the perpetrators of a gang rape in a village near…

Ali Akbar Salehi A group of Iranian MPs has called on the head of Parliament to impeach Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi for his…

Ahmad Shaheed Iran must stop the United Nations human Rights investigator from coming to the country, the deputy of the Iranian Parliament’s human rights…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

The head of Tehran City Council said today that officials must not stand in the way of morality police and their street-level enforcement of…

Twelve Iranian political prisoners have started a hunger strike to protest the deaths of the two Nationalist-religious political prisoners in the past month, Haleh…

Ahmad Shaheed The United Nations has appointed Ahmad Shaheed, the former foreign minister of Maldives, as special rapporteur on human rights for Iran. In…

General Jabbar Yavar The Kurdistan Regional Government says seven Iranian soldiers were killed by landmines on Thursday. General Jabbar Yavar, a spokesman for the…

Reza Hoda Saber A commemoration service for Reza Hoda Saber, the jailed Iranian journalist who died of a massive heart attack 10 days into…

Esfandiar Rahim Mashai and Hamid Baghai Iran’s Parliament announced that it has received a series of reports questioning the actions of Esfandiar Rahim Mashai…