Saeed Mortazavi, the former Tehran prosecutor and head of the Social Security Fund, presented the final portion of his defence on Sunday December 28 against charges of financial corruption laid against him by a number of officials. One hundred senior officials of the former administration are being investigated in connection with financial corruption. ILNA […]
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Rohani adviser denounces poor treatment of dervishes
The Iranian president’s adviser on ethnic and minority affairs says the treatment of dervishes in Iran in recent years has been “unfortunate” and “arbitrary” and against “the interests and laws of the Islamic Republic”. IRNA reports that Ali Younesi commented on Friday December 26 on the mistreatment of dervishes in recent years, saying: “Those […]
Younesi says; Dealing with Dervishes is “mishap” and “arbitrary action”
Special Assistant to the President of Iran in ethnic and religious minorities affairs mentioned,dealing with the Dervishes is an “unfortunate” and “arbitrary action” which is in contrast with “the interests of the Islamic Republic”. He kept on; “these mishaps and events occurred in the past and “have not been repeated anymore”.According to IRNA, Ali […]
Mir Hossein Mousavi: “I stand ready to expose the source of the extensive corruption that has engulfed our nation and our revolution.”
A Defiant Mir Hossein Mousavi from House Arrest: “I stand ready to expose the source of the extensive corruption that has engulfed our nation and our revolution.” In his first political statement since forced into illegal house arrest, Mir Hossein Mousavi, the Leader of Iran’s Green Movement responds to the recent wave of accusation, […]
Mousavi responds to public attacks
With a rising number of accusations against the opposition leaders being spread in the media, MirHosein Mousavi has responded, calling those attacks “slander and insults”. The Kaleme website reports that he has repeatedly demanded the right to be put on trial where he could “tell the truth” but the authorities have refused. “I and […]
First phase of “smart filtering” called a success
Iran’s Minister of Communications says his ministry has started implementing “smart filtering” by blocking access to “distasteful images” on Instagram. However, this new form of censorship has not yet ended the Iranian government’s wholesale blocking of Facebook and YouTube. The Fars News Agency reports that Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters that the launch of the […]
Leader’s representative comments on opposition house arrests
The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in the Basij forces says the release of MirHosein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi from house arrest can only be achieved “through secret channels”. The Shargh daily reported on Saturday December 27 that according to Mohammadreza Toysarkani, the house arrest is under the jurisdiction of “the group that […]
Film deemed too violent for screening
KIanoosh Ayari’s film Khaneh Pedari (Our Father’s Home), which recently was cleared for public screening after four years, has once again been pulled from cinemas through the intervention of Parliament’s Cultural Commission, which says the film contains “one of most violent sequences in the history of Iranian cinema”. The Shargh daily reports that the last […]
Nuclear Program Has ‘Hurt Iran More Than Iraq War’
Iran’s nuclear activities and ambitions faced rare, blunt criticism at a roundtable at Tehran University, where one of the speakers said the damage done by the nuclear program was greater than that by the 1980-88 war with Iraq, which left tens of thousands dead and caused much devastation. “The imposed war [with Iraq] did […]
Newspaper closure, arrest may be linked to story on government critic
Yaghma Fakhshami, a political reporter for the Roozan daily, was arrested two days after Iranian authorities banned the newspaper. ILNA reports that Fakhshami was arrested on December 24 and is now in Evin Prison. The Roozan daily was shut down on Monday December 22 by the order of the Tehran prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s […]