Fazel Larijani has called on the Tehran Prosecutor to lay charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Saeed Mortazavi, the head of the Social Security Fund, for defamation and slander.
Category: Sufi news
Pope Benedict XVI resigns
Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will resign on February 28th, saying he no longer had the strength to fulfill the duties of his office.
Iran Detains Daughters of Opposition Head
An Iranian opposition website says authorities in Tehran have detained the daughters of reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest for nearly two years.
Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s Judiciary Is a Subsidiary of the Intelligence Ministry
Following the arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former press court judge and prosecutor, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “The timing and the manner of arrest of Saeed Mortazavi, a suspect in the Kahrizak Detention Center case and the Zahra Kazemi murder […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Enter Twenty-Seventh Day of Hunger Strike
Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri reached on 27th day of hunger strike and their health condition is reported dire while are suffering with vision loss, kidney failure in addition to weakness, weight loss and dizziness.
No News of Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes’s Lawyers Situation After 26 Days
The families of Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers who have been under detention almost 18 months, have no news about them for 26 days and their follow up has been inconclusive.
Economic hardship blamed for Iran’s mental illness epidemic
Ever-increasing food-prices and general economic hardship in Iran, with daily reports of gangs attacking people in broad daylight and grabbing their money and food, have led to a dramatic increase in mental illness.
Mass Summoning Of Activists By Intelligence Apparatuses
While in the past months, the Intelligence apparatuses were trying to encourage the Reformists (in a controlled and ineffective manner) to participate in the upcoming presidential election, yet, a large number of activists have recently been summoned and threatened that they should refrain from any campaign activities. Otherwise, they should […]
Veteran activist says Iranians still under tyranny
Iranian political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadiyani has issued an open letter from prison, saying the Iranian Revolution failed because “absolute monarchy was reproduced as the absolute leadership of the Faqih (the expert cleric).
Preventing Tajzade’s medical treatment in Farabi Hospital
Islamic revolutionary guards agents prevented the continuation of medical treatments on Mostafa Tajzade’s teeth and eye in Farabi hospital and claimed that since now all the process will be continued in a hospital which is under revolutionary guards management.