The press deputy at Iran’s ministry of Islamic Guidance called the BBC Persian Service and Voice of America news organizations “antagonistic media” and warned Iranian journalists and media activists to “seriously refrain” from “giving them …

Just a day after Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the powerful State Expediency Council, expressly criticized the foreign policy of the current Iranian administration, speaking at a different forum he stressed that he had no intention of …

Former Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporter Emad Afrough has predicted that the elite will not participate in the upcoming Majlis elections thus negating the possibility of change in the next Majlis or massive public participation in the elections. This …

Judiciary officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have reported that 140 individuals have been executed in the province of Khorasan on charges of “smuggling addictive drugs.” Human rights defenders on the other hand contend that on average two …

The resumption of attacks on the border areas of Iran and Iraq’s Kurdistan by the armed forces of the Islamic republic on the assertion of the presence of PKK (the Kurdistan Workers Party) which had stopped last year, resulted in a warning by the …

Two years after the controversial presidential election of 2009 and at the height of the differences between Ahmadinejad and ayatollah Khamenei, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani spoke with reporters and stressed his and Majlis’s absolute obedience to the …

Just one month after former two-time president Mohammad Khatami publicly said that both sides – regime and the opposition – needed to make public apologetic statements over the events since the 2009 presidential elections, something that received a …

As differences between Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went public, past supporters of the government became the president’s critics who now warn of the influence of his aides among Revolutionary Guards and particularly …

Nobody should be polite over the murder of Haleh Sahabi and there should be no misgivings. We are talking about the death of an innocent person, a law abiding and peaceful citizen; someone who loved people, was a Muslim and a patriot. She was …

News reports about Nasrin Sotudeh and Batool Keyhani are in front of my eyes. Two distant beloved ones to whom I can relate. Nasrin is an attorney who is serving her 9 month jail sentence without having committed a crime. Her only offense is that the …

While Ezzatollah Sahabi, the leading figure among Iranian national-religious activists, and a quiet critic of the Islamic regime, passed away on Tuesday after a month-long comma, his daughter Haleh Sahabi died due to a scuttle with security forces …

As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his entourage were visiting the Abadan refinery complex, an explosion in the plant rocked the facility and burnt it down. Minutes after the explosion which resulted in death and injuries of a number of the workers at the …

In interviews with Rooz, civil society activists and people familiar with the plight of political prisoners, stated that the execution of Kurdish political prisoner, Habibollah Latifi, has been upheld by the country’s highest judicial body and is …

In an interview with Rooz, the father of Al Jazeera reporter Homa Dorothy Parvaz demanded that Islamic republic officials and the Syrian government provide information about his daughter. Homa Dorothy Parvaz’s father, Pirooz (Fred) Parvaz, told Rooz …

Official sources announced that eight people have been hanged in prisons in Western Azarbaijan. Some analysts point to the increasing number of executions as a sign of the regime’s return to the execution policy. Khosrow Kordpour, a journalist in …

In front is a pit, and behind is a judge; a man who should uphold justice. In front are small rocks that will target the body, but behind there is no rock, but there is a judge who should be the keeper of justice, but is targeting the soul here, …

Persons close to Zia Nabavi tell Rooz that following the publication of his shocking report from conditions at the Karoon prison in Ahwaz, Nabavi has been transferred to a prison facility that is maintained better, according to a telephone …

The families of several female political prisoners raised alarm about their transfer to the Qarchak prison in the city of Varamin, announcing that the prison lacks the most basic and humane conditions. Fariba Kamalabadi’s mother, Shahra Kamalabadi, …

Several civil and political activists in Azarbaijan were put on trial between April 26 and May 4, as a large number of residents in Tabriz were detained following a match between Teraktor Sazi and Saba football clubs. A lawyer representing many of …

In commemoration of the World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders issued a report reminding the world that more than 200 journalists and bloggers have been arrested in Iran in recent years and naming president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme …

A person close to imprisoned actor Ramin Parchami said in an interview with Rooz that the actor, like the rest of the Iranian people, is searching for freedom and his stolen vote. He added that Ramin has been among the protestors during the past two …

The Islamic republic’s foreign minister, foreign ministry spokesperson, national security chief, and state-run media outlets reacted with caution to news of Osama bin Laden’s death. On May 2, the U.S. President Barack Obama announced on national …