Seven days after Sane Jhaleh and Mohammad Mokhtari were killed on the streets of Tehran, people in various cities of Iran demonstrated to honor and commemorate them the two. But their anger was larger than just for the two deaths, they showed their …

Yesterday and today the people of Tehran and other Iranian cities called the leader of the Islamic republic a dictator and declared that after Hosni Mubarak and Ben Ali, it was now seyed Ali Khamenei’s turn to be booted out. The protestors to the …

The Islamic republic of Iran and the UK are on the verge of fully breaking their diplomatic relations. With the appointment of the current British ambassador to Tehran Simon Gass as the new NATO representative to Afghanistan, Iranian authorities …

After issuing repeated warnings about the “future seditions” and even launching a website with this very name, the Iranian regime has embarked on organizing seminars on future protests and the city of Qom is the first stop. Cleric Mojtaba Zolnoor the …

Pro-government media in Iran are reporting of the impending candidacy of ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani for the position of the chair of the Assembly of Experts on Leadership (Majles Khobregan). According to these reports, Mahdavi Kani is under …

Among the protestors in Egypt, there was a woman sitting on the street holding a placard that read: Thank you Egyptian military for remaining with the nation. And so the scenario that took place in Tunisia repeated itself in Egypt: the military did …

Iran’s Chief Justice, ayatollah Mohseni Gorkani said, “Our life, tranquility and peace depend on executions and ghesas” (loosely translated as retaliatory punishment). Mehr news agency reported that the ayatollah made these remarks in his ethics …

Immediately after Mir-Hossein Mousavi published his statement on the developments in the Middle East, pro-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad news sites in Iran responded with verbal attacks and viewed it as acknowledgement of the accusations that the principlists …

After Hashemi Rafsanjani reasserted his position over the June 2009 tenth presidential elections and its aftermath in Iran, the pro-administration media launched a new wave of verbal and written attacks on the veteran politician and head of the …

In his latest statement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the leader of Iran’s protest movement, commonly known as the Green Movement, commented on the uprising of the Egyptian people and said, “If the government respected the sovereignty of the people in …

The Collapse of the Revolutionary Culture and its Rebirth with Conflicting Values. Iran’s revolution and its outcome (a dictatorial regime, incredible levels of violence, etc) have weakened revolutionary culture in different ways. Peaceful methods to …

In recent years, and particularly since the disputed June 2009 presidential elections in Iran, commanders of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have regularly appeared in the media and accused many political personalities, civil activists, and media …

The custodian of Iran’s saint Imam Reza’s shrine (Astan Ghods Razavi) in the city of Mashhad ayatollah Vaez Tabasi verbally attacked the leaders of the country’s Green Movement, calling them “leaders of the sedition” (a term the Iranian regime uses …

Nearly three months after Iran’s supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei made a weighty trip to Qom, where the country’s senior ayatollahs reside, Rooz has obtained the full text of the talk that he delivered at the second meeting with the Qom Theological …

Despite the proliferation of intelligence and security agencies in Iran including the Intelligence Ministry and the various offices of intelligence and security forces within the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the army, the police, as well as the …

Ever since protesters were brutally suppressed in Iran because of the demonstrations against the results of the 2009 presidential elections, discontent among the various layers of the military and police personnel regarding the deployment of the …

Through their separate remarks two days ago, Jaafar Shajooni, a cleric supporting Ahmadinejad’s administration, and Ali Motahari, a principlist member of the Majlis critical of the administration, revealed the existence of differences between Iran’s …

In an exclusive interview with Rooz, Fatemeh Kamali, the wife of prominent Iranian writer and human rights activist who is currently in prison, pronounced that efforts had been underway for many years to break this journalist’s pen as a way to stop …