Iran’s Minister of the Interior said on Monday September 8 that ISIS forces in Iraq have possible plans to “attack Iran” but he added that there have been no cases of ISIS attempting to recruit in Iran. According to ISNA, when asked about the movements of ISIS, Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on the […]
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Case of cholera confirmed in Tehran
Iranian health officials say they have identified a case of cholera infection in Tehran. The announcement indicates that the infected individual is an Afghan national who was sick upon entering Iran. The Mehr News Agency reports that the individual was diagnosed with cholera by doctors and is currently receiving treatment. People who were in […]
Iranian National Front member released from Evin
Hootan Dowlati, a political prisoner in Ward 350 of Evin Prison, was released on Saturday September 6. Kaleme reports that Dowlati, a member of the Iranian National Front political party, has been in jail for the past year and a half without any furloughs. He was arrested in March of 2012 and charged with […]
A cyber activist sentenced to 3 years in prison
Sohail Arabi, a defendant of Cybercrime was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday 3rd September 2014. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Soheil Arabi, cyber activist was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in total by the Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Salvati with […]
Latest Report on the Condition of the Leaders of the Green Movement ~ Illegal House Arrest Approaches 1300 Days
The following is a summary of the latest report from Kaleme dated Sunday September 1st, 2014 regarding the condition of the Leaders of the Green Movement Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, now under illegal house arrest at their residence on Akhtar Street since February 2011. – More than a year following the election promises […]
A Post Nobody Wants to Fill
In late May of this year news reports confirmed that the political deputy minister of Iran’s Ministry of Interior Kazem Mirvalad had resigned from his post. But with the passage of over three months now nobody has been announced to fill the post. Mirvalad was member of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s election headquarters in […]
A Draw For Now
Rouhani Administration’s Accomplishments and Failings Those who are not in favor of Hassan Rouhani’s administration and remain pessimistic about its accomplishments criticized me last week for making premature judgments over three events. May be they are right because in politics, just like in a game of football, the last minutes of a game can be […]
Gonabadi Dervishes’s Lawyers Condole the Death of Dr. Katouzian ” the Father of Iran’s Science of Law”
The imprisoned lawyers and Gonabadi Dervish rights activists sent a message expressing their condolences over the death of author, Professor Amir Naser Katouzian known in the country as ” the father of Iran’s science of law”.Born in 1927, Professor Katouzian has 45 books in his career mostly used as university curriculum in teaching Law. […]
Former prisoner describes suspicious group from 2009
Iranian journalist and former political prisoner Emaddedin Baghi says that in the wake of the 2009 Iranian election, 100 armed supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were arrested. Baghi quotes the leader of the Motalefeh party, saying: “In one of the post-election demonstrations, the Ministry of Intelligence arrested a group of 100 people between Azadi and […]
Plane With U.S. Military Lands In Iran After ‘Bureaucratic’ Issue
A Fly Dubai charter plane flying from Bagram Air Field to Dubai landed in Bandar Abbas, Iran because of a “bureaucratic” issue, the State Department said on Sept. 5. The State Department said the plane was not “forced down” by the Iranian military and that the issue was resolved. Hours later the plane departed […]