In the past year most disputes between the Majlis and the administration were hotly debated in the parliament and the media, but eventually were resolved with the intervention of pro-administration principalist MPs (who generally support the …

Following the publication of interviews with families of several victims who lost their lives during protests against the disputed June 12 election, and the families’ denial, we contacted Abbas Tavanfar, the news agency’s editor-in-chief to ask him …

Senior Islamic republic officials have conspicuously changed their tone since the passage of the fourth UN Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, the economic and social repercussions of which are beginning to emerge, while foreign …

Lawyers and families of victims of the Kahrizak prison atrocities have appealed against the court judgment issued by the Kahrizak court at the end of a closed trial. The court’s verdict was announced to the lawyers of the Kahrizak victims six days …

Following the passage and implementation of a new round of sanctions against Iran and pursuant to the rise of new foreign threats against the country, Mir-Hossein Mousavi issued a statement in which he examined the domestic dimension of the new …

While the New York Times reported last week that sanctions against Iran were circumvented in Iraq’s Kurdistan and much oil and petroleum products crossed the border into Iran in return for money to Kurdish and Iraqi officials, one Kurdish authority …

As a heated debate rages over whether it is appropriate to criticize the green movement and Mir Hossein Mousavi, in an exclusive interview with Rooz, Zahra Rahnavard says, “those who are not criticized become stagnant like a marsh, and we welcome all …

Less than two years after a senior and well-known right-wing cleric in the Islamic republic publicly said that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his close allies had implemented Abbas Palizdar’s project to get re-elected to the presidency in 2005, Palizdar now …

In a pointed speech on Tuesday, the head of the Majlis Research Center Ahmad Tavakkoli blasted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reminded him that the Majlis can legally remove him through impeachment or a vote of no confidence. Tavakkoli made the remarks in …

Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, the founder and president of the Kurdistan Human Rights Defense Organization, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for his human rights activities, articles and the founding of his non-governmental organization. …

Following the passage of the latest round of United Nations Security Council sanctions resolution and the subsequent unilateral sanctions resolutions by the United States and the European Union against Iran, and while yesterday representatives of the …

As reports surfaced that security agents have threatened to kill Shahram Amiri’s son if he does not return to the country, a new clip surfaced of the Iranian nuclear scientist on the Internet. In the clip, which surfaced on the Internet, Amiri says …

While not much time has passed since the execution of Abdulmalek Rigi, the head of the Jondollah group in Iran’s Baluchistan province, the prosecutor in the southern city of Zahedan announced last week that death sentences had been issued for two …

More than a year has passed since the beginning of the Green Movement. Today, I would like to tell you things about the Green Movement that you might be less aware of. Firstly, the Green Movement is not a religious movement, but it cannot be called a …

A week after the eight Majlis passed heated legislature in support of Iran’s largest institution of higher education Azad University the battles by others and competing members of the parliament continue. According to the government media, …

The departure of the USS. Truman and 12 warships to the Persian Gulf to join or replace USS. Eisenhower, and the passage of the fourth Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran this month with its focus on the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary …

The battle that coup perpetrators in Iran are wagging with the other faction on the right which has till now not fully surrendered to the rules of Ahmadinejad’s military-security administration supported by Mr. Khamenei himself, has reached new …

Mansour Osnaloo’s family called for in investigation into the beating of the family’s young daughter-in-law. In an exclusive interview with Rooz, Mansour Osanloo’s wife said, “My daughter-in-law was two months pregnant and we didn’t know. After the …

In exclusive interviews with Rooz, Iranian refugees in the Iraqi Kurdistan reveal their desperate living conditions, uncertain fates, absence of security and unresponsiveness of the United Nations in processing their cases. Officials at the United …

The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration’s confrontation with Azad University officials and backers reached a new level yesterday, casting a shadow on the prescheduled meeting of the heads of the three branches of the Iranian regime. One day after a …

One year after reports and rumors surfaced about the influential role of ayatollah Khamenei’s son in the election coup and the possibility that he would succeed his father as the supreme leader of Iran, one prominent right-wing figure claimed to …