Seyed Mehdi Mousavinejad, a member of the clerical faction of the Majlis told Rooz that appropriate state agencies if there was no court ruling or a resolution against former president Mohammad Khatami. Otherwise, the law must be implemented. If the …

After months of pressure and attacks on Rouhani’s administration over its appointments in the ministry of Science and its cultural activities, a resolution by Majlis deputies was submitted to the parliament’s presiding board which summons the …

The last two days witnessed a new round of court summons and arrests of media and civil activists in Iran. Mashaollah Shamsolvaezin (a prominent journalist and member of Association of Iranian Journalists) was summoned and banned from leaving the …

An Iranian Internet website affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards and its Basij para-military militia with a hardline security leaning has claimed that it was shutting itself “because of pressure.” The closure of Nedaye Enghelab (translates into …

In a speech at Iran’s parliament, the Majlis representative from Zahidan warned about the security situation in the country’s border province of Sistan and Baluchistan and for the first time revealed the mass murder of a family in the town of …

Last week the governor of the province of Ghom responded to complaints by Lebanon’s Hassan Nasrollah who had called for greater controls over religious satellite television networks whose programs came from clerics and others in the Iranian city of …

Less than two weeks after a member of Majlis’s committee on Article 10 of the Constitution related to political parties announced that the party activities of the Teacher’s Association of the Ghom Theological Center (Jame Modaresin Hoze Elmie Ghom) …

We all know that many men and women have been the victims of the excesses of the first decade of the life of the Islamic republic in the 1980s. They learned of the regime and its nature through the horrendous and frightful excesses and transgressions …

Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, the head of Tehran’s infamous Evin prison told Tadbir news agency that Ward 350 of the prison was quiet and peaceful. But since then, the families of prisoners of the ward have relentlessly screamed of the violence perpetrated …

A pro-government website recently announced that the Association of Professional Iranian Journalists will not be reopened. The minister of labor recently spoke about the creation of a professional organization but made no reference to the issue of …

Just one day after Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani made a comment about the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), a senior commander of the force responded by saying, “The guards do not invest in any political personality or group, but it is natural that if …

The US government has finally announced that it would not issue a visa to Hamid Abutalebi as Iran’s proposed permanent representative to the United Nations. The Islamic republic of Iran has called the denial a violation of the international rules …

The kidnapping of five Iranian border guards by Jeish al-Adl, the execution of one of them the release of the remaining four because of the efforts of cleric Molavi AbdolHamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the border town of Zahedan and other …

It appears that Hassan Rouhani’s view announced during his presidential campaign that centrifuges should continue to spin in Iran only as long as people’s lives continue their course as well is not to the liking of the rulers of the Islamic state. …

The mother of Sattar Beheshti – a blogger who dies in prison - told Rooz that EU’s foreign policy chief said she would enquire about her son’s murder from Iranian authorities. “Ms Ashton treated me in a very friendly and respectful manner. She said …

Twenty Iranian lawmakers signed a petition demanding that the country’s intelligence chief explain the meeting that EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had with two Iranian human rights activists at the Austrian ambassador’s residence in …

“The media should expose, and we will provide moral support,” this is the summary of what Hassan Rouhani’s cultural advisor said. After Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani asked the media to expose the “names of corrupt people”, his cultural advisor …

After president Hassan Rouhani publicly criticized the threatening language of some military commanders and the intensification of the tensions between the Revolutionary Guards and the Rouhani’s administration, a number of senior members of the force …

Even as two weeks have passed since five policemen were kidnapped by Jeish-al-Adel armed group efforts to find them have not produced any results. In a related development, the head of police of the town of Iranshahr in southern Iran was killed in an …

Cleric Mohsen Gharaati, the head of Iran’s Friday Prayer board has rejected education as a requirement for marriage, citing the wide education gap between senior clerics and their wives. In his most recent remarks he also said that family planning …