Technical talks today in Istanbul ended with agreement to meet again. The talks came against a show of force by both Iran and the United States.
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Egyptian president not visiting Iran
The office of Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi has denied a recent report that he will visit Iran.
Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2012)
03.04.2012-Wave of arrests and convictions of journalists undiminished in Iran Reporters Without Borders learned on 30 June of the arrest on of Mohammad Solimaninya, head of the social networking site u24, after he was summoned to Tehran’s Evin prison. The netizen had been previously arrested on 10 January this year then released on […]
Iran seeks to legalese marriage for girls under 10
The legal affairs committee of the Majles, the Iranian parliament, has told the press that they regard the law that prohibits girls below the age of 10 from being married off to be ‘un-Islamic and illegal’. According to recently released statistics, in the past few weeks over 75 female children under 10 were […]
Iran: Death penalty for every case – ethnic protests, prisoners of conscience, drinking alcohol…
Karim Lahidji, vice president of FIDH and president of LDDHI, said : “The authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran are relentlessly pursuing their policy of state terror against any form of dissent by imposing and implementing the death penalty.
Iran’s Green Movement & Academics Condemns Anti-Semitic Rant By Iran’s Vice-President
Iran’s Green Movement and Academics Condemns Anti-Semitic rant by Iran’s Vice-President.
Iran mourns 1988 airliner downing by US warship
Iranians marked on Monday the anniversary of the downing of an airliner by a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf more than two decades ago.
Iran’s largest reformist party calls on Egypt’s new president to uphold democracy
GVF-Iran’s largest reformist party has congratulated Muhammad Morsi on his win in Egypt’s presidential election.
What is Iran
Evolution of the Names Iran, Arya, and Fars (Persia) in ancient texts Some questions are simple superficially but complicated fundamentally. One of the most complicated issues in historical studies is clarifying the meanings of countries’ proper names.
U.N. publishes report on Iran arms trade with Syria
A U.N. Security Council committee has published a report on Iranian sanctions violations, including shipments of weapons to Syria in breach of a U.N. ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic.