Arrests and summons of journalists continue. But no official explanation for the arrests, where the journalists are being held or their conditions have been announced by judiciary officials. In contrast, pro-government newspapers have published their …

Two days after a senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) official made direct remarks about this military organization’s plans to control Iran’s upcoming presidential election in June, ayatollah Khamenei representative in the same force also spoke of the …

Last week, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander declared that the protests and demonstrations against the officially-announced results of the 2009 presidential elections that took place that very year were more “dangerous than the 8-year …

Iranian news agencies reported that on Friday December 28th Saria Rasoolzadeh, another victim of the fire at a girls school died of burn wounds, following the earlier death of schoolgirl Siran Yeganeh. Last week, a fire broke out in the Shinabad …

Last week, the head of Iran’s government Mahmoud Ahmadinejad counseled the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to sell its acquisitions and real estate assets to meet its budgetary and financial needs. This week, Guard commanders responded by saying …

Human rights reports and Bahai activists in Iran told Rooz that security agents in the province of Semnan have been trying to extract fake and incriminating confessions from imprisoned Bahais in an effort to prepare a propaganda documentary. But …

While Iran’s leader ayatollah Khamenei and his appointees call on the public to resist the pressures of international sanctions through “resistance economy” on a daily basis and at the same time threaten Western countries and denounce any talks over …

While it appears that many hardline ideologue Principlists who are critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s administration seem to be gradually accepting the idea of Isfandiar Rahim Mashai’s presidential bid in 2013, the secretary general of Hezbe Islamie …

A new wave of pressure is mounting on Iranian Sunnis as the ruling council of Maktabe Quran organization, a Kurdish Sunni group, announced through a statement that a number of its members had been summoned and interrogated by the security apparatus …

Mohammad Mehdi Abdkhodai, the secretary general of the Fadayan Islam Association (Martyrs of Islam) says support for Palestine and battling Israel are more important than Iran’s national interest. In an interview with Rooz, he said that even if …

While the most recent limitations imposed on Iranian women who wish to travel outside the country have not yet hit the full house of the Majlis, the women’s faction of the assembly says that even harsher restrictions for women’s travel are on the …

Six days after the Israeli attack on Gaza, Tehran’s Mohammad Rasoolollah Revolutionary Guard Division declared its readiness to confront Israel. This is the very same division that was tasked with crushing the Green Movement protests against the …

After a lull in the number of executions announced by the official Iranian media in the month of Ramazan and during the Non-Aligned Summit conference in Tehran earlier this year, the country’s judiciary has returned to its practice of high rate …

The latest official reports point to the presence of more than 2.5 million unemployed in urban areas and 500,000 unemployed in rural areas. Those in the 15 to 29 age group comprise the largest number of the unemployed, with over 2 million. In …

Only a few days after a ban on certain medications, including the powerful pain reliever Tramadol, went into effect, one newspaper based in Tehran reported an explosion in the illegal trading of “the deadliest drug” in Iranian pharmacies. The report …

Nine female political prisoners have staged a hunger strike to protest the Evin Prison special guards’ attack on the ward populated by female political prisoners. Speaking to Rooz, Amin Ahmadian, Bahareh Hedayat’s husband, confirmed the news and …

In an interview with Rooz, Yasser Hashemi said that legal procedure is not followed in Mehdi Hashemi’s case and that his brother lacks the basic rights of a detainee. Mr. Hashemi also said that his brother has not yet been formally charged and they …

(Satire) A famous Iranian cleric said during one of his sermons: “The idea of flying originated with the prophet Solomon, not the Wright brothers.” Another famous cleric discovered that other prophets have done notable things as well. Adam: He was …

As the European Union announced it was imposing more sanctions on the Islamic republic because it was “acting in flagrant violation of its international obligations,” which includes more banking restrictions and a ban on the import of Iranian gas to …

The office of the supreme leader of the Islamic republic of Iran published a statement on its official site warning about “misunderstanding” and the “juxtaposition of main and secondary” themes of ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks. It also asserted that …

Representatives of over ten thousand drivers from Tehran’s metropolitan Vahed Bus Company (Sherkate Otoboosrani Vahed) gathered yesterday in front of Tehran’s Municipal building to protest discrimination in benefits between the general employees and …

Following the remarks by some Iranian commanders in the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the regular military about the inevitability of war with Israel, the representative of the country’s supreme leader in the Ghods Force – responsible for …

There are times when life under a suspended sentence is more painful than actually serving the sentence. All those who have experienced this know it. But it is perhaps rare for a nation to be living under suspension and go through daily life feeling …