While the spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry had said that he was not aware of any confidential letter by the president of the US to the leaders of the Islamic republic of Iran, the disclosure of the contents of such a letter and Tehran’s response …

With the passage of over 250 days since the leaders of Iran’s Green Movement Mehdi Karoubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard were put under illegal house arrest, and while just a few more months are left for elections to the ninth Majlis, a …

All of us and under different pretexts have repeatedly spoken on the structural political obstacles of the Islamic republic of Iran and the weaknesses of the current constitution for attaining some levels of democracy and respect for human rights. We …

On September 17, 2011, BBC Persian service television aired a documentary called Khat va Neshane Rahbar (Signals and Gestures of the Leader). This documentary film is about the personal and political life of Iran’s supreme leader seyed Ali Khamenei …

About two months ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to observers, stepped into an unwanted war with PJAK, the armed Kurdish group that has a regional presence. Initially, IRGC Revolutionary Guards declared that the Kurdish group which it …

Espionage is a special crime that is considered serious not just by governments but also by peoples. They do not forgive it because it is seen as an act against the interests of people. But this is a peculiarity of societies that respect and trust …

While there has been some chatter questioning the need to have a presidential position in Iran’s political system ever since ayatollah Khamenei’s differences with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went public about five months ago, resulting in splits among …

Iran’s leading opposition figure under house arrest since February this year, Mir-Hossein Mousavi was quoted saying that, “in view of the continuation of current conditions [in Iran], there is no hope for participating in the upcoming Majlis …

Families of those arrested during the Ramadhan’s fast-breaking hours on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011, spoke with Rooz about their family members and said they still had no information about their status. As described by witnesses and published video …

During the last month the Kurdish border regions of Iran and Iraq have been witness to artillery shelling from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Turkey’s warplanes. In addition to inflicting tragic civilian casualties, these attacks have also …

A few years ago, one of the producers of CBS’s 60 Minutes asked me to arrange for the networks interview with Maryam Rajavi, a leader of Iran’s Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO). I told him then that I thought it was not possible to do this, to …

Twelve cultural and student activists have been rounded up in the towns of West Gilan, West Eivan and Kermanshah in Iran’s northern province of West Azerbaijan. Based on reports published by Kurdish news sources, some of the detainees told their …

Before anything else, I must say that the great problem of the pro-democracy movement in Iran, which is the most important cause for intellectual progress in the country, is not a lack of thinkers. In recent years, owing to the many efforts made in …

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Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Khoeini, the secretary general of the pro-reform Association of Combatant Clerics (Majmae Rohaniyoon Mobarez) has said that the goal of the reformists is to “keeping the Islamic Republic,” rather than working around or outside …

Following his earlier warnings against what he has termed as anti-clerical events in Iran, the head of the powerful State Expediency Council Hashemi Rafsanjani - an institution that is constitutionally tasked to resolve differences between the …

After Basij militia commander Mohammad-Reza Naghdi announced a program to enlighten the public for “electing the best”, senior authorities in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have dispatched thousands of “political messengers” across the country to …

Armed clashes between the armed forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the Kurdish group PJAK, along with the shelling by Iranian artillery which according to the editor of hardline Kayhan newspaper has taken place deep inside the …