When the term “fled from home” is attached to a girl’s name, the mind of an Iranian invariably perceives prostitution and all kinds of sexual immorality and misbehavior on her behalf. State judiciary organizations in Iran regularly use this label …

Following US President Barack Obama’s comments last week about the need for change in Iran’s behavior and leadership after the July Vienna nuclear deal, the head of Iran’s judiciary and a number of commanders of the IRGC (Revolutionary Guards), …

Bahareh Hedayat was a student activist and a member of the governing board of Iran’s largest university student organization, the Daftare Tahkim Vahdat. Rooz spoke with her mother, Mahbubeh Javadi, who complained of pressures and threats that were …

Following the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the six major world powers (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 and the endorsement of the deal by the UN Security Council, commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary …

As President Hassan Rouhani enters his second year in office and with the nuclear issue not overwhelmingly dominating the top agenda of the state, public attention shifts to other national issues and expectations from the president and his team take …

These are the words of a senior Iranian police official as reported on an Iranian website, Varsh News. Morteza Talai, a former chief of police of Tehran and the current deputy chief of Tehran’s security council is reported to have said, “Ten percent …

In their celebration of the Vienna nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the six major powers reached on Tuesday, one of the chants some people in the streets of Tehran shouted was, “The next agreement is for civil rights.” Videos on websites …

A former top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai, who is now the secretary of the exclusive State Expediency Council (a group set up to resolve differences among the three branches of the Iranian government) and has returned to the …

Nasrin Sotudeh is a well-known Iranian human rights defense attorney who has seen prison and had her license to practice law revoked. She has been protesting against a three-year ban by the Attorney Disciplinary Court that deprives her of practicing …

In the wake of the most recent leaks of classified intelligence diplomatic cables belonging to Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry – posted on the WikiLeaks site - Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance during reformist president Mohammad …

Last week the representative of Iran’s supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) expressed his concerns about the possibility of a change in the composition of parliament after February’s elections to the disadvantage of the current …

“He is very tired and very distressed” is how Jason Rezaian’s mother, Mary Rezaian, described her journalist son’s condition who yesterday attended the second session of his closed trial. The Washington Post reporter has been in custody for over 11 …

Ahmad Janati, the aged and influential Friday prayer leader of Tehran who earlier this year too criticized Hassan Rouhani’s administration for its nuclear diplomacy and called on the public to bear out the pressures caused by international sanctions …

With seven months since Iranian media first reported a series of acid throwing incidents in Isfahan, a senior police official announced that the cases were still in the investigation phase. General Mohammad-Reza Moghimi, the head of the country’s …

While authorities in some of the neighboring and regional countries have expressed concern about the growing influence of the Islamic republic of Iran in West Asia and point to the country’s military presence in war-torn countries such as Syria and …

Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance publicly conceded that cyberspace and banning satellite television receivers was impossible, and that efforts to accomplish these were futile. He instead proposed to manage public opinion rather than …

Sobhe Sadegh weekly run by the political office of the Revolutionary Guards posted a story praising Mohammad Javad Zarif for his interview comment that “nobody is imprisoned in Iran for his views” while at the same time expressing displeasure for the …

During a speech to police commander on April 25 President Hassan Rouhani stressed that the “duty of the police was not to enforce Islam but to implement the law.” This brought forth a quick response from some clerics in the city of Ghom and also some …

As verbal assaults by Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders on Hassan Rouhani’s nuclear talks with the world major powers continue with persistence, this week once commander implicitly accused the president of being “deceived and traitorous” and …

The national security and foreign policy committee of Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, was scheduled to debate the issue of officials who hold dual nationality or Green Cards last week. The debate was put off but members of the committee now tell Rooz …

The vacation home of Jamaledin Khanjani, a member of the Bahai Council who is in prison was demolished by security agents in the town of Semnan. According to a member of the family, one day they were told that they had 48 hours to vacate their house …

Human rights organizations confirm the rapidly rising number of executions in Iran since the end of the Iranian new year (March 21st, 2015) holidays. Seventy individuals have been executed in the last three weeks through decisions of the country’s …

Last week veteran Iranian politician and current head of the State Expediency Council, which is officially charged with resolving critical Majlis and government political differences, talked of a historic episode in which ayatollah Khomeini’s wife …