Even though calls for the release of Green Movement leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karoubi and Zahra Rahnavard have grown since the election of Hassan Rowhani as president, the official website of the political bureau of the Revolutionary Guards …

While according to official figures some 800,000 people are imprisoned annually in the Islamic republic of Iran, the office of supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei has announced that he has allocated 120 million Toman to help release prisoners. …

Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s trip to the Jerusalem Film Festival in Israel has caused a lot of controversy. For instance, Fars New Agency reported: “Mohsen Makhmalbaf talks about friendship with Israel right at a time when the regime has started a new wave of …

A fatwa that allows Shiite fasters to drink water during their day-long fast that was issued by senior ayatollah Bayat Zanjani a few days ago has caught the attention of Iran’s media and is stirring controversy. The ayatollah Zanjani’s official …

Less than two years have passed since the creation of the Steadfast Front – a group made up of conservative hardliners who proclaim adherence to what they call are the original principles of the 1979 Islamic revolution - whose 20-man decision-making …

Following the wave of judicial confrontations with criminals, which have intensified since mid-June, three prisoners were executed in the city of Kermanshah on charges of murder and the possession of illegal drugs this week. News agencies also …

As president-elect Hassan Rowhani continues the search for his cabinet, Iran’s conservative hardliners commonly known as principlists too continue to raise new demands from him and provide their own interpretations to the newly elected cleric’s …

(Satire) Here Are Some Options Italian Democracy People get fed up with Berlusconi and hand over the government to the communists resulting in a 10 percent loss of their purchasing power. Then, while cursing Berlusconi, people elect him again: They …

As the new administration is beginning to take shape, the Islamic Republic supreme leader’s appointees and Revolutionary Guards commanders are threatening the president-elect that he will suffer “consequences” if he opposes the supreme leader. In his …

We learned a lot of lessons in Mr. Ahmadinejad’s era, which we will teach to you too: Grammar lesson: “We can” is a present tense verb, but if, after a while, you “can’t,” then it becomes a pluperfect verb. Dictation lesson: A dictator is a person …

With the passage of a week since Hassan Rowhani, the reformists’ presidential choice, won Iran’s 11th presidential elections, the representative of Iran’s supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei in the Revolutionary Guards force tried to downplay the …

Speaking with Rooz about the fate of outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmad Bakhshayesh a principlist member of the parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee said “Ahmadinejad’s period was over.” Bakhshayesh made an …

Close to 200 political activists published a letter through which they announced that disturbing rumors had been circulating about the condition of Arash Sadeghi who had started a hunger strike “because he had been beaten by security agents.” In the …

Even from the first hours of Saturday’s vote count, it was clear that Hassan Rowhani would at the least make it to the second round with a principlist rival. Contrary to the previous presidential election, this time voting results were not announced …

The head of Iran’s pro-reform Agents of Construction party (Kargozaran Sazandeghi) Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi called the June 14 vote of the majority of Iranians for Hassan Rowhani as the next president to be the product of the maturity of Iranian …

In addition to the presidential race, another series of elections are on their way in Iran: elections to city and village councils. There are currently some 207,000 candidates competing for the 193 city councils seats and 118,960 candidates for the …

With only a few days left for the eleventh presidential elections in Iran, verbal attacks by military men and some appointees of the supreme leader of Iran on the qualified presidential candidates are on the rise so much that they have been accused …

With just a week left for Iran’s eleventh presidential election, the president’s chief of staff whose bid for the presidency was rejected by the Guardian Council appears to be awaiting an overruling of the disqualification by the country’s supreme …

“Since Mr. Rafsanjani was eliminated from the upcoming elections, apathy is apparent among Iranians. Some await his return, even though unlikely. Public opinion has not yet accepted his disqualification and recognizes it as a legal decision.” These …

While Iran is still grappling with the Guardian Council’s rejection of Hashemi Rafsanjani – a founding member of the Islamic regime - to run in the June presidential election, provincial and town executive and supervisory bodies are busy quietly …

“Mr. Rafsanjani made himself available, people welcomed it and the regime rejected him. The regime is responsible.” These are the words of Hossein Marashi, the spokesperson of the Kargozaran Sazandeghi (Agents of Development/Construction) party, who …

After the Guardians Council disqualified Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashai from running in the presidential race, Mashai announced that he would protest the ruling, while Rafsanjani has till now not responded. Speaking exclusively to …

With less than 4 weeks left till election day, Iran is witnessing a new round of summons of civil and political activists to Iran’s ministry of intelligence, non-extension of prison leaves and mass summons of prisoners on leave. In addition, two …