A few days after president Hassan Rouhani reiterated his campaign promise of working to release the leaders of the Green Movement from their house arrest in response to students’ demands, the bulletin of the political office of the Revolutionary …

As the hunger strike of 27 political prisoners in the town of Orumiyeh, west of Tabriz in north-western part of Iran, entered its 19th day, news came that the prisoners were denied telephone calls to their relatives, cutting off all communications …

Last week witnessed more comments in support of the response that the top Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammad Ali Jaafari, provided to foreign minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif’s recent remarks when he said, “I proclaim that the Islamic republic is …

Through the pretext of defending Islamic values, it has been claimed for the last thirty six years that relying on international provisions and documents will not correct the gender discriminations that exist against women in Iran’s traditional …

The Friday Imam of the town of Zahidan in Iran’s Sunni-populated province of Sistan and Baluchistan, Molavi AbdolHamid sent a letter to the new director of the state-run national radio and television organization (IRIB) calling on him to respect the …

Speaking exclusively to Rooz, a member of Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, said that both Iran and the US want the ongoing nuclear talks to come to fruition by the deadline of November 24th so they can celebrate. Ahmad Bakhshayeshi spoke of “signals” …

Last week when he was released from Evin prison, where he had spend the last four years as a political prisoner, Amin (Peyman) Chalaki, the 2009 deputy manager of Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s election campaign in Saveh, held up a photograph of his former …

A photographer working for the government ISNA student news agency was arrested after his photographs of people who were protesting the recent acid attacks were published by the news agency. No news about his whereabouts or condition has been …

Mohammad-Reza Kani died hours ago. He was the most important and the longest running traditional cleric in the Islamic republic of Iran. He was the most important member of the Revolutionary Council, the first clerical cabinet minister, the interim …

Rooz talked with EU representative Marietje Schaake who recently visited Iran and participated in the award-giving ceremony for Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotudeh. Ms. Schaake said that if the nuclear talks currently underway between Iran …

The Majlis Development Committee spokesperson says that the Iran-140 airplanes will no longer be permitted to fly over the Iranian airspace. Speaking to Rooz, Mehrdad Lahouti claimed that the Majlis Development Committee’s report on the Iran-140 …

The Iranian president’s short but strange answer to Christian Amanpour’s question has unleashed a wave of criticism against him. One of Rouhani’s main slogans during his presidential campaign was the release of journalists and political prisoner. …

Just two days after Iran’s deputy judiciary chief issued an ultimatum to the minister of telecommunications demanding that some virtual social networks such as Viber and Whatsapp be blocked public access, the chief of the country’s police force …

Following reports of heightened shortage of water in Iran in recent months, a newly released report indicates that in addition to the 13 large cities that now have a water crisis at their hands, two major dams, Lar and Latian to east of and close to …

The head of the public relations office of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) general Ramezan Sharif announced that in the latest armed clashes between the Guards and members of the armed Jeish al-Adel insurgents around the town of Saravan in …

Following the orders of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government for Iranian military parties to withdraw from the front fighting the Islamic State insurgents, Iran’s foreign minister speaking to reporters called groups that were not under the command of …

With the parliament’s dismissal of Iran’s minister of science, Reza Farajidana, there are fresh conversations about changes to take place in the alignments of Majlis factions. While the formal formation of a parliamentary faction in the Majlis …

Last week after an Iranian passenger plane belonging to Sepahan Air crashed on take-off killing more than 40 of its passengers, Iran’s president suspended all the flights of Iran-140 aircraft, a domestically manufactured plane based on the Russian …

Following ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks opposing the disarmament of Hams and the demands to “help arm” and “equip the Palestinian nation,” a commander of the IRGC Revolutionary Guards who is a member of the foreign policy and national security …

The director general of the office of foreign citizens and immigrants at the governor’s office in the Iranian province of Kurdistan has called on the women in the province to refrain from marrying foreign men because of what of what it deems to be …

In an open letter to Mehdi Karoubi four years ago, Abdol-Hossein Harati called the 1980s in Iran “The Terror Hallway of Iran’s History” that is associated with the founder of the Islamic republic ayatollah Khomeini. Through the letter he objected to …

The special assistant to president Hassan Rouhani in ethnic and religious minority affairs Ali Yunesi said that some refrain from mentioning religious minorities or ethnic groups while there are those who insist on peripheral and non-priority issues …