As the anxiety of security-military agencies of the Islamic republic over the deepening economic crisis and unprecedented inflation in the country heightens and raises the fears and possibility of public uprisings, senior Revolutionary Guard …

Twenty years after the assassination of four Iranian Kurdish leaders in a Hamburg restaurant in Germany by agents of the Islamic republic of Iran, calls continue for a trial to bring the perpetrators to justice. “I have a dream,” is how the German …

Salahedin Khadiv is a Kurdish political analyst and activist from the town of Mahabad. He spoke with Rooz about the recent agreement signed between the Kurdish Democratic Party and Komeleh in recent weeks. “People’s priorities these days are mostly …

Satire In a letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the commander of Iran’s Basij para-military force General Naghdi has asked the president that since he is going to be the head of the Non-Aligned Movement for the next nine months to immediately take over …

The head of Iran’s population oversight office at the ministry of health has issued a warning over the growing number of unhealthy abortions in the country. Mohammad Mirzai said there is a wrong perception that by removing the means that are …

Nine months after a group of para-military Basij students and elements of Ansare Hezbollah attacked the British embassy in Tehran, the supreme leader of Iran criticized the attack while labeling the embassy as “evil.” Interestingly, ayatollah Ali …

The 935,000 applicants to Iranian universities for the next academic year face unprecedented gender discrimination in some study subjects. New previously un-announced restrictions are barring women from pursuing certain university studies. Most of …

In response to an incident at Tehran’s Khomeini airport this week where a woman was undressed on orders of security guards, Mehdi Khazali, the son of a very prominent ayatollah, wrote on his personal website that had this been done to his wife, he …

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized the naming of Mohammad Reza Rahimi as an accomplice in the Bimeh Iran insurance lawsuit and has expressed his concern about the continuation of the issue whereas he has remained silent on the arrest of 13 web …

“Hijab is not mandatory even on Muslim women, let alone on other religious minorities. What requirement? How have our women lived in the villages from the days when Islam appeared? They didn’t wear the chador. … Who in our demonstrations mandated or …

In an exclusive interview with Rooz, Mojtaba Vahedi, the former spokesperson for Green Movement leader Mehdi Karoubi who continues to be under house arrest, announced that he has decided to end his relationship as advisor to Mr. Karoubi. He made the …

The head of Iran’s powerful State Expediency Council and two-time president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called for “All the phases of the future presidential elections to be held legally, transparently and freely.” According to him, this would …

In his latest remarks, the head of Iran’s military police who had earlier warned of “differences and divisions” within the armed forces, called on “alertness and protection” of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) members and asked the authorities of the …

On the day that Iran’s press jury determined that two publications “Iran Jome” and “Chelcheragh” were in violation of the press law, and rejected any leniency on them, the minister of culture and Islamic guidance issued his “final warning” to the …

Eight days have now passed since the EU oil embargo against Iran went into effect. Ayatollah Khamenei has remained silent on the issue while his representatives in the armed forces have retreated from their threatening positions on blocking the …

With the breakdown of the latest round of talks between the West and the Islamic republic over Iran’s nuclear program and as Western officials express hopelessness in continuing the talks, senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) authorities …

Legally the foreign office (or department of state) of every country is responsible for protecting the rights of the country’s nationals abroad. In that light, soon after Saudi Arabia executed 5 Iranian nationals in Riyadh, the spokesman of Iran’s …

An official from Iran’s Social Welfare Organization announced his concerns over the spread of friendships between the sexes among children less than six years of age. He also revealed statistics to conclude that addiction to cigarettes in the country …

“Any action to launch a velvet revolution in Iran will be crushed immediately. If political groups and parties in Iran are realistic they will not move towards planning or implementing such scenarios. Everybody must accept the people’s votes and …

News reports indicate that Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, the twenty something year old web blogger, is dying. He has been imprisoned on charges of knowing how to use the Internet, for being smart and for saying “no” to the illegal interrogations and …