Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has announced the arrest of 20 middle managers of the former administration in connection with a financial fraud case. Alavi reports that the scheme took place from 2010 to 2013 during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second term as president. He told IRNA that the Ministry of Intelligence began discovering the financial […]
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Calls For Release Of Jailed Students, Opposition Figures On Iran’s Student Day
Some students in Iran used Student Day, celebrated on December 7 with speeches and other events at universities, to call for the release of opposition figures and jailed students. Iranian semiofficial news agencies Mehr and Fars reported that a speech by President Hassan Rohani at Tehran’s University of Medical Sciences was disrupted by students […]
Supreme Court Rejects Legality of Kokabee’s Sentencing
Lawyer Says Ordered Review Should Lead to Kokabee’s Release Iran’s Supreme Court has explicitly rejected the legal basis of Omid Kokabee’s prosecution and sentencing. Branch 36 of Iran’s Supreme Court ordered the review of Omid Kokabee’s case, according to a ruling it issued on October 11, 2014 and recently made public by his lawyer. […]
A Gonabadi Dervish Interrogated by Information Office in Khuzestan
Mr. Ali Roustami one of the Gonabadi dervishes residing in Hendijan, a city of Khuzestan Province, was summoned and interrogated by the Information Office of Hendijan, one of the segments of Khuzestan Province.Reported by Majzooban Noor, the mentioned dervish working in the department of water and sewage, after several times overlooking the call summons; […]
Moderates And The Road to the Next Majlis
While known political groups and religious personalities in Iran have not yet taken steps for the next parliamentary elections, except for the newly-created groups who have their eyes on the moderate seats in the 290-seat Majlis, news reports indicate that the few remaining critics in the Majlis will not find their way into the […]
Reliance on Ethnocentric Solutions Equates to Deceiving Women
Through the pretext of defending Islamic values, it has been claimed for the last thirty six years that relying on international provisions and documents will not correct the gender discriminations that exist against women in Iran’s traditional society. It is only through reforming religion, the claim goes, that violence against women at the minimum […]
Mousavi fears for health of wife without treatments
MirHosein Mousavi, the Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest with his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, since 2011, has spoken out against the failure of the authorities to provide adequate medical treatment for his wife. The Kaleme website published a report regarding the condition of the two opposition leaders under detention. The report […]
Health minister cites rising violence as problem in Iran
Iran’s minister of health says Iranian society is prone to violence and needs to re-examine the issue in order to overcome it. In a memo entitled “Finding a Solution for Violence in Society” that was published in the Etelaat daily on Saturday December 6, Hassan Ghazizadeh writes that he spoke at length in the […]
Amended law could reduce drug-related executions
Iran’s Commissioner of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani says his office is making a concentrated effort to change capital punishment linked to drug charges, which would result in a considerable decline in executions in Iran. The Islamic Republic has been repeatedly criticized by international organizations and Western countries for the high number of executions in […]
Animal Rights Activist Arrested in Iran
An animal rights activist has been arrested in Iran. Friends and relatives of Ali Tabarzadi believe his arrest is related to a call he and others had made for a protest on December 5 in support of animal rights and against the killing of stray dogs and cats. Authorities have not provided a reason […]