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Manouchehr Tamri A reporter for the Iranian state new agency IRNA has been arrested in southwestern city of Sanandaj. IRNA reports that Manouchehr Tamri…

Iran’s next parliamentary elections are set for March 2, 2012, the interior ministry has announced. The parliament also passed a law today requiring that…

Mohammad Khatami Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami spoke out against the continued detainment of opposition figures and protesters, and criticized the government for failing…

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Two sound-bomb explosions have been reported in the northwestern city of Sanandaj in Iran’s Kurdistan Province. Mehr News Agency reports two explosions occurred last…

Ali Saeedi Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards expressed concern regarding the political stance of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency…

Bahrain Security forces have arrested a human rights lawyer and two physicians according to Associated Press. Mohammad Tajer, a human rights lawyer was arrested…

Four American senators have called on U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to impose sanctions against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a human rights abuser. “We…

European-Iranian Commercial Bank (Eihbank) may come under European Union sanctions soon, a German daily reports. The Süddeutsche Zeitung daily reports that Germany has stopped…

Ali Akbar Salehi Iran is calling for immediate UN intervention in Bahrain to “end the massacre of the people of Bahrain.” Iranian Foreign Minister…

Rupert Colville The UN has confirmed that at least 34 people were killed last Saturday in the attack on Camp Ashraf, the Iraqi settlement…

The European Union has frozen the assets of 32 Iranian officials for violating human rights in Iran, announcing that they are also barred from…