While several official news agencies announced two weeks ago that the Basij force will be merged into the ground force of the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), yesterday the Armed Forces Joint Chief of Staff confirmed the plan and …

Divisions within the ranks of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s allies, known as the Principalists, have led to purges and eliminations, and such prominent figures as senior former Majlis leader Mohammad Reza Bahonar, who has been an outspoken critic of …

With a smile on his face, the announcer on an American television said sneeringly, “One may be the president of a country, yet not have a place to spend the night.” He continued, “Like Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who until now has not found a place to …

Following ayatollah Khamenei’s criticism that universities were not Islamic and the condemnation of the large number of students in the humanities, remarks by some lawmakers and the newly-appointed science minister herald the implementation of the a …

While 90 days have passed since the arrest of prominent political activists and journalists, and five sessions of their sham trials have been held in which they attack Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karoubi and Seyyed Mohammad Khatami in their forced …

During his nationally televised Eid Fetr speech on Friday, Iran’s leader ayatollah Khamenei remarked for the first time on the confessions of detained protestors. He said that self-confessions of the detainees were valid but confessions (i.e. …

The confrontation of political activists and the country’s senior clerics entered a new phase with the arrests of their children. While the mass arrest of political activists and journalists in the aftermath of the June-12 coup sparked widespread …

While early this week the three-member judiciary committee dismissed Mehdi Karoubi’s documented allegation of murder, abuse and rape of post-June 12 election detainees as lies and lacking legal basis, Karoubi wrote a letter directly to the Iranian …

As rumors spread about ayatollah Khamenei issuing a directive to arrest Mehdi Karoubi, the website affiliated to E’temad Melli (National Trust) Party reported that Hashemi Rafsanjani has threatened to resign from all his posts in the government if …

A day after ayatollah Khamenei likened election protesters to the Khavarej [dissenters in the early history of Islam], a three-member judiciary panel in charge of investigating post-election events announced Mehdi Karoubi’s evidence of prison rape to …

After security forces raided the offices of the committee to investigate detainee conditions, confiscated documents, arrested Morteza Elviri and Alireza Hosseini Beheshti, and sealed shut the offices of Mehdi Karoubi, E’temad Melli (National Trust) …

The offices of the Tehran-based Association for the Defense of Prisoners’ Rights were sealed off on Monday on orders of the new prosecutor general of Tehran and the agents from this office removed all the documents related to prisoners and their …

The supreme commander of Iran’s elite Passdaran Revolutionary Guards (PRGC) Mohammad Ali Jaafari accused former two-time president Mohammad Khatami and former Majlis representative Mousavi Khoeniha who is currently the secretary general of the …

While remaining uncertain and concerned about the fate of their loved families, the families of political activists and journalists arrested in the aftermath of the June 12 coup must also watch the sham trials put together by the coup government. …

The Iranian legislative assembly, the Majlis, continued to examine the qualifications of the cabinet ministers proposed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday while the Iranian people continue to challenge and protest the official results of the June 12 …

he first Majlis session to review Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet nominees was held yesterday while scores of people gathered in several parts of Tehran, calling for Ahmadinejad’s resignation and chanting “coup government, resign, resign.” Meanwhile, …