The Lausanne agreement continues to lead the news. Neither Javad Zarif’s presence in the Majlis not a challenging television interview have succeeded in satisfying the opponents of the deal in Iran. Still, it appears that a group of critics look at …

Rooz spoke with prominent Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace prize winner about the impact of the recent nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the five major powers in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here are the excerpts. Rooz: Do you …

Iranian newspapers remained shut for a relatively longer period during the Iranian New Year holidays and published or posted their first issue of the new year, 1394, on April 4th. That is the same day when Iran and the six major world powers - …

Iran’s labor community, which ended the Iranian calendar year of 1393 on March 20, 2015 in dismay because of the government’s decision just two weeks earlier to raise the minimum labor wage only to about $248 from $195, began the new year with no …

The Iranian calendar year of 1393 ended on March 20th and for the Revolutionary Guards it was another year of tumultuous relations with the government whose chief executive this time had declared his intention of embarking on “constructive …

Hassan Rouhani came to office on the promise that he would free political prisoners and those under house arrest. But that promise was still an illusion as he stepped into his second year. While the focus of his administration was on foreign policy …

Following the report by Ahmad Shahid, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, which states a rise in executions and human rights violations in Iran in the last two years, a member of Iran’s parliament claimed that human rights …

While news agencies close to the government and certain government organizations in Iran have published conflicting news reports about president Rouhani’s advisor Ali Yunesi, the commander of the Basij paramilitary force has called for the court …

Part 1 of this report which was posted yesterday, Rooz reported on interviews with four of the six Sunni Kurdish political prisoners who were executed last week and then buried the next morning in Behesht Sakine cemetery. Hammed Ahmadi, Kamal Molai, …

Family members of the six Kurdish political prisoners who were executed last week, told Rooz that their imprisoned kin were sent to an isolation ward last week just before being executed. They also said that when they saw their incarcerated family …

In early 2011 on the anniversary of the day in Iranians had gathered to commemorate the support they had given in 1979 to Mehdi Bazargan – ayatollah Khomeini’s appointee as the first prime minister of the Islamic republic after the revolution – …

In an exclusive interview with Rooz, the director general of Iran’s Environmental Agency Mohammad Darvish spoke with Rooz about the demonstrations in front of the City Council against the municipality’s policy of selling its lands and converting …

Two months have passed since President Hassan Rouhani talked about the dangers of institutions in which “intelligence, guns, money, capital, websites, newspapers and news agencies” are concentrated but the topic remains a key subject whenever …

Following the killing of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander close to general Ghasem Soleymani and the official confirmation of his death by the public relations office of the IRGC, a senior commander of the force announced that Israel would see …

Hashemi Rafsanjani’s activist daughter Faezeh told Rooz that she did not view yesterday’s events in the Majlis unrelated to next year’s parliamentary elections. According to her, MPs who know that they don’t have the public vote want to get votes …

As differences and jabs between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force (IRGC) and the administration of Hassan Rouhani grow by the day, less than a day after Rouhani called opponents of the nuclear talks “illusionary” and his emphasis that “Our ideals are …

Family members of Behnam Ibrahimzadeh - the labor activist held at Rajaishahr prison in the town of Karaj near Tehran – announced that their prisoner is being retried. In a separate exclusive interview with Rooz, Nima Ibrahimzadeh, the son of Behnam …

Just over a year remains for two important national elections in Iran, one for the parliament and the other for the Assembly of Experts on Leadership which constitutionally determines the supreme leader of the country and monitors his work. But news …

The seventeenth session of the Assembly of Experts on Leadership – a body that elects the supreme leader of Iran and also monitors his work – that will be held in two months has been moved from Tehran to Ghom, according to the website of the …

Even as next year’s annual budget presented to the Majlis is under review by parliament, the Basij and Propaganda deputy of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of Iran’s armed forces who had earlier called for the establishment of the “Ministry …

Workers at the Pars Wagon train car manufacturing plant who on the third day of their strike had taken their protest to the streets finally ended their action on Saturday after the mediation of the chief of police of the town of Arak and a member of …