After passing three years and following the lack of investigation of Dervishes’s complaints against 4 clerics, the principal offenders of Kavar event, Gonabadi Dervish, Saleh Moradi in a new letter to the officials of the Special Court for Clerics calls for urgent action and judicial consideration in this case.According to Majzooban Noor, Gonabadi Dervish […]
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Iran Filters Outspoken Lawmaker’s Website
The website of conservative Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari has been filtered by Iran’s judiciary, according to the hard-line Fars news agency. The report says no official explanation has been provided for the decision to block Motahari’s website, which is also inaccessible from outside the country. The official IRNA news agency says “unconfirmed reports” suggest […]
Teachers Protest Wages That Are Below the Official Poverty Line
Strikes continue in a number of Iranian cities Teachers in the cities of Marivan, Baneh, and Shahrood, who have refused to attend class since January 20 in protest against wages that are below the official poverty line, have announced that they would not abandon their protest until their demands for salary increases are taken […]
Response of Special Clerical Court to Dervishes, “Not Authorized to Issue Verdict”
When a number of Gonabadi Dervishes put a compliant in action against some of the clerics who had a key role in stimulating the extremists, and not any result has been seen yet, the respective judge to this case said; “we are not allowed to issue the verdict due to the command of high […]
MPs seek names of bribe-takers in previous Parliament
A number of Iranian MPs have called on the heads of Parliament and the judiciary to publish the list of representatives in the eighth Iranian Parliament who received bribes from Mohammadreza Rahimi, the former vice president who has now been convicted of corruption. ILNA said 22 MPs have delivered a letter to Ali Larijani, […]
Attar: Muslim Saints and Mystics (Tazkarotol-Oulia) Part 8: Dho ‘l-Nun al-Mesri
Muslim Saints and Mystics Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ ( Memorial of the Saints ) by Farid al-Din AttarTranslated by A. J. Arberry Dho ‘l-Nun al-Mesri Abu ‘l-Faiz Thauban ibn Ebrahim al-Mesri, called Dho ‘l-Nun, was born at Ekhmim in Upper Egypt c. 180 (796), studied under various teach-ers and travelled extensively in Arabia and […]
Demonstrations in Amsterdam in Support of Sufis
Following the recent Iranian Supreme Court approval of the Shiraz Revolutionary Courts ruling upon which 7 Gonabadi dervishes were convicted of belligerence and corruption on earth and sentence of exile; the representatives of international organisation to preserve human rights in Iran gathered in Amsterdam to protest the Iranian Supreme court decision and demand for […]
Supreme Court Convicted 7 Dervishes of Belligerence (enmity with God)
Iran’s Supreme Court approved of the Shiraz Revolutionary Courts ruling upon which 7 Gonabadi dervishes were convicted of belligerence and corruption on earth. Based on this ruling, 3 of these dervishes were sentenced to life long exile and 4 were sentenced to 28 years (in total) of temporary exile. According to Majzooban Nour, Branch 15 […]
Rohani reportedly ordered review of house arrests
Opposition website Saham News reports that Hassan Rohani has ordered a review of the house arrest of the leaders of the Green Movement in the next session of the Supreme Council of National Security. The report indicates that President Rohani announced in the last session that the house arrest of Mehdi Karroubi, MirHosein Mousavi […]
Facebook users charged for alleged threat to “Iranian lifestyle”
A group of Facebook users has been arrested for the charge of “spreading corruption and degeneration of the Iranian lifestyle” The Mehr News Agency reported on January 31 that the detainees were the chief figures in an active network and were identified in a project referred to as “ankaboot” (spider). The head of the […]