The loser in the policies on women in Iran is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Let’s assume that the Islamic republic has become a superpower and has passed all other world powers and let’s imagine that it has become the powerhouse of the region, it is …

Seventeen years after the assassination of a large group of prominent Iranians by members of the state security apparatus, surviving family members have called for the public to remain in sympathy with them. Family members of Parvaneh and Darioosh …

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps have been busy in recent weeks arresting Iranian journalists, resulting in protests that have included those of president Rouhani as well. Majlis member Ali Motahari - the son of the ideological founder of the …

The spokesperson for the Bahai community in Iran told Rooz in an exclusive interview that at least 15 of the community members in Iran had been arrested on Sunday in various towns in Iran and the shops of some others had been shut and sealed by …

Article 5 of Iran’s Parties Law provides that “Effective members of an annulled party who were effective members at the time of the annulment, and annulment was carried by a court order because it had committed a crime” shall be “deprived of creating …

Iran’s ministry of intelligence announced the arrest of 40 members of “terrorist groups” in the provinces of Khuzestan, Sistan va Baluchistan, Tehran, Golestan and Mazandaran, and has said “Pressure caused by Russia’s military operations in Syria” …

Nothing new in this story: Insults waged against various minority groups by the state-run national radio and television network and other state affiliated media. This time, a TV program burst into the open a deep pain that even apologies by the head …

Close associates of grand ayatollah Shirazi say that on Wednesday, security agents gathered in front of the ayatollah’s home in Qom and chanted such slogans as “The home of the seditionist authority of emulation must be destroyed” and “Shame on the …

Narges Mohammadi is a well-known Iranian human rights and civil activist who has been the target of the Iranian judiciary and security apparatus for years and is now in the notorious Evin Prison. Last week she was transferred from a hospital outside …

Security forces in Mahabad broke raided the offices of Ravangah news website and arrested its manager, Hossein Sheikh Aghai who is also the caricaturist for the newspaper. A reporter told Rooz Online that the website had a reformist attitude adding …

While less than five months are left to what many call momentous elections in Iran, the secretary of the powerful Guardian Council – a body that vets the candidates to national elections - announced, while implicitly attacking Hashemi Rafsanjani and …

After ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks that Saudi Arabia would be dealt with in a “harsh and rough” way, the IRGC top commander Aziz Jaafari said “all possible potentials for Iran’s rapid and harsh response” and the “implementation of the will” of the …

Last year Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, approved the generalities of the hijab protection bill. The bill, which was signed by three women in addition to the many men MPs, contains some dangerous provisions which not only indicate a new wave of …

The inability of Niloofar Ardalan, an awarded woman athlete, to travel to watch Iran’s soccer team in the currently-going-on Asian soccer games (known as the AFC Asian Cup) has once again brought forth the discriminatory laws against women in Iran. …

On July 22 Neda Mostaghimi was finally released from Evin Prison after the end of her 3-year prison sentence because of an amnesty granted by Iran’s leader on the occasion of Eid Ghadeer ceremony (the day Shia Muslims believe Islamic prophet Mohammad …

Following last week’s remarks by Iran’s leader ayatollah Khamenei when he said, “If the sanctions are not to be lifted, then there is no deal,” one of his Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) commanders explained the remark to mean that the lifting of all …

When they threw the toddler from the Syrian town of Kobani into water, he only imagined playing in it, splashing and flapping, as he laughed with joy, chanting like a swallow. What else could he know at three, other than playing? But he sensed the …

After a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) commanders criticized President Rouhani’s recent remarks that the July nuclear deal had averted the shadow of war hovering over Iran, the top IRGC commander, who had until two years ago been …

As restriction on teacher activists continue, this week another member of the ruling body of the teachers association and an independent teacher activist were arrested in Tehran. Mohammad Habibi, another member of the teachers association of Tehran …

Since my article “Girls Who Flee From Home Are Not Criminals” was posted I have been asked a legal question which I would like to address here below.  A 22-year woman from the countryside has written this to me: “My family, led by my brother, has …

In response to President Hassan Rouhani’s most recent remarks that the Guardian Council only had the duty of “monitoring” the elections (and not implementing them) and that the screening of candidates was the work of government’s “executive boards,” …