The Iranian Bahais International Community issues a statement in which it condemned the attacks on an Iranian Bahai family in the town of Birjand which resulted in body injuries to the victims. Dayan Alai, the representative of the Community at the …

As the interim Geneva agreement over Iran’s nuclear program enters its third month, criticism over it by a section of the conservatists and Principlists has been growing. Members of the Steadfast Front (conservative hardliners that include the …

Academician Sadegh Zibakalam went home yesterday after posting a 50 million Toman bail. He had been summoned to the attorney general’s office and served an official complaint. Zibakalam is recognized as a supporter of president Rouhani’s …

Four Sunni prisoners in Karaj’s Ghezelhesar prison have been on a hunger strike for the past two months and their health is now reported to be in very serious condition. Reporter Kamal Hosseini, reports from Iranian Kurdistan that, “The physical …

The secretary general of “The Workgroup on Identifying Criminal Content” ( Kargoroohe Tayin Masadighe Mohtavaye Mojremane ) announced that while the government had till now not received an official request for the ban on Facebook to be lifted, it …

Ali Tajernia, a member of the governing council of the moderate Jebhe Mosharekat (Participation Front) and also the head of the Islamic Society of the Association of Iranian Doctors, told Rooz that a number of current Majlis representatives fear that …

Farhand Pirbal, a prominent Iraqi Kurdish writer and intellectual was among a group of Iranian Kurds who was protesting in front of the Mahate prison in Iraq’s Erbil against the continued detention of Iranian Kurds in the custody of the Kurdish …

Iran’s vice-president for legal affairs Elham Aminzadeh told Rooz that the published text of the civil rights charter is only a draft and that it would be concluded only after public feedback, civil society and the president’s view on it. Ms …

Millions of Iranians, inside and outside the country, and even some peace-loving people around the world, stayed up on Saturday night in expectation of the news of the resolution of one of the most difficult international problems of recent years: …

The twenty one women political prisoners in the Naswan (women) Ward of Evin prison are the only political prisoner women in the general ward of the prison since their non-political inmates were transferred to Gharchak prison about two years ago. But …

Cleric Mohsen Gharavian told Rooz that according to polls conducted on Iran-US relations, the majority have a positive view of establishing relations with the US and that Hassan Rowhani’s efforts are in line with the wishes and trust of the Iranian …

Just a few days after Zahra Eshraqi’s much discussed interview, her sister Naimeh became the center of attention on Facebook and chatter over the comment that she made which spread so rapidly and widely that she had to post an explanation and then …

Daughter of head of the Expediency Council Faezeh Hashemi tells Rooz that the telephone conversation between Hassan Rowhani and Barak Obama can result in a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries. In an exclusive interview with …

US president Barak Obama has never expressed so much hope in the improvement of relations between America and Iran. During the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Obama make Iran the center piece of his address and by mentioning the …

In an exclusive interview with Rooz, the chairman of the legal and judiciary affairs committee of Iran’s parliament the Majlis said that Iran has no political prisoners. According to chairman Alahyar Malekshahi, so long as the political crimes bill …