Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former deputy interior minister who became a prominent political prisoner following the 2009 election protests, will be put on trial again on May 10. ILNA reports that Amir Hosseinabadi, Tajzadeh’s lawyer, says his client is being tried on a new charge brought against him while he is serving a prison term. […]
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Kurdistan Province employees protest unpaid wages
A group of employees at the Environmental Protection Office of Kurdistan Province have staged protests against “unfair wages and benefits.” One of the protesters told ILNA that they have not been paid part of their wages since last June. The report adds that the employees have unpaid wages dating back to 2008. The head […]
Iran Asks For UN Committee Meeting On Banned Envoy
Iran has requested a special meeting of a UN committee after the United States announced it will not grant a visa to Tehran’s new UN ambassador appointee. On April 11, Washington said it would not grant a visa to Hamid Abutalebi because of his links to the 1979-1981 Tehran hostage crisis when radical Iranian […]
Concern grows for health of detained opposition leaders
An opposition website reports that the medical condition of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house arrest since February 2011, is cause for grave concern. Kaleme reports that: “Guards do not follow up on the matters concerning Mousavi and Rahnavard’s health.” The report adds that doctors have said that […]
Gonabadi Dervish Was Disqualified from Working
Gonabadi Dervish and resident in the city of Bandar-Abbas, Sayed Javad Mortazavi was disqualified from contracting with Shipping Organization of Iran because of his affiliation with the Gonabadi Dervishes order. According to Majzooban Noor, this disqualification order has been made by Harasat forces (The Harasat is a unit in each Iranian organization that acts […]
Iranian Sunni cleric says government asked for help to free soldiers
Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric spoke by phone to Al-Monitor about his role in the release of the border guards kidnapped by Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl and the state of Sunnis in Iran. After nearly two months in captivity, four Iranian soldiers were released April 4 by the militant Islamist group Jaish al-Adl. […]
Senior Iranian cleric gifts illuminated Bahai text to Bahai community
In a symbolic and unprecedented move, Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani, a prominent Muslim cleric in Iran, announced that he has gifted to the Bahais of the world an illuminated work of calligraphy of a paragraph from Baha’u’llah’s Kitab-e Aqdas. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ayatollah Tehrani states on his […]
Mohsen Rahmani arrested for raising a poster sentenced to 7 years
Activist Mohsen Rahmani who was arrested by security forces for raising a Mir Hossein Mousavi poster at a Hassan Rouhani presidential campaign rally on June 1, 2013, has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), during imprisonment at Ward 209, Rahmani was under severe […]
Officials enlisted to allow American scholar’s burial in Iran
The chairman of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has written to the Iranian president, the foreign minister and the Isfahan governor to facilitate the burial of Richard Fyre and the building of his mausoleum on Khajoo Bridge in Isfahan. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to the letter and called on the president’s […]
Iran rejects Dutch visit over plans for other meetings
A member of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says a visit to Iran by Dutch parliamentarians was cancelled because the delegates intended to meet with “seditious and anti-Revolutionary elements.” Ebrahim Aghamohammadi told the Mehr News Agency on April 13 that the delegation was told it would have to follow diplomatic norms […]