Iranian political prisoners Hossein Ronaghi Maleki and Saeed Razavi Faqih are refusing food to protest the lack of adequate medical treatment in prison. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki and Saeed Razavi Faqih The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Sunday March 27 that Hossein Ronaghi Malek...

March 28, 2016 at 3:16 pm Iran’s Central Bank says inflation at the end of the Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 19, was at 11.9 percent. The Fars News Agency reported on Sunday March 27 that the Central Bank said the inflation rate has dropped by 0.7 percent from the previous month. In hi...

Iranian media report that prominent Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has been released from hospital. Abbas Kiarostami The Mehr News Agency reported on Sunday March 27 that Abbas Kiarostami is in relatively good health and has been released from hospital to convalesce at home. The report describes...

March 27, 2016 at 12:35 pm Iran’s Ministry of Education says the penalty for failing to register one’s children in school has been increased to one million toumans in fines and up to three months in prison. A spokesman for the ministry told the national broadcaster on Saturday March 26 that by law, ...

A spokesman for Iran’s Public Health Office a ounced that 10 percent of children covered by public health care have no birth certificate. ILNA quoted Habibollah Masoudi Farid saying on Saturday March 26 that gove ment commissions are intent on pursuing the issue of providing Iranian citizenship to t...

The Iranian judiciary has reduced the death sentence of Arjang Davoudi to five years in jail in exile in Zabol. Arjang Davoudi The Human Rights Activists News Agency has quoted Davoudi himself saying: “A few days before the [Iranian] New Year, they informed me in prison that the appeal court has dro...

A number of Iranian Kurdish citizens have reportedly been arrested in various regions of Kurdistan province during Norooz festivities. Political activists had wa ed earlier of the increasing security-laden atmosphere in the province. Kordpa reported on Thursday March 24 that at least 20 activists in...

March 26, 2016 at 4:53 am The crash of an emergency helicopter flying from Khonj to Shiraz with a patient in critical condition killed all 10 people on board. The crew, the patient and a companion as well as a paramedic were killed in the accident. On Friday March 25, the head of Fars Province emerg...

The appeals court has reduced the sentence for Iranian writer and TV producer Mostafa Azizi to three years in jail and a fine. Mostafa Azizi The Jou alism is not a Crime website reports that two years of the sentence must be served, because according to the new penal code, when someone receives pris...

Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to eliminate restrictions on access to lawyers for detainees charged with crimes against national security. The rights groups reports that “nine months after Iran’s new criminal procedure expanded detainees’ access to a lawyer during the investigative phase, aut...

Aida Qajar A number of Iranian musicians ushered in the new Iranian year with a concert at the refugee camp in Calais, France. More than 100 Iranians and other asylum seekers took part in the concert and relieved the stress of their dire conditions for several hours by joining the festivities. Alale...

The Isfahan gove or has confirmed the disqualification of Minoo Khaleghi, the third candidate elected from Isfahan in the parliamentary election of February 26. He also reported that the candidate has filed an appeal of the decision. Minoo Khaleghi Rasoul Zargarpour said on Wednesday March 23 that t...

March 23, 2016 at 5:35 pm Jailed Iranian jou alist Issa Saharkhiz, whose health has seriously declined in jail due to repeated hunger strikes, may soon be released. Issa Saharkhiz Mehdi Saharkhiz has told the Inte ational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father has been hospitalized and do...

Iran’s Intelligence Minister has criticized the former administration’s campaign of firing university professors. Mahmoud Alavi ILNA reports that Mahmoud Alavi said in a visit to Fars Province: “If the country is now suffering from a scientific decline, it is because of the elimination of experience...

Road accidents have killed 169 people across Iran during the Norooz holidays so far, according to Iran’s highway police authorities. The Tasnim News Agency reports that on Tuesday March 22, Commander Eskandar Momeni said: “Since the Norooz holidays began, road accidents have claimed one life every h...

Nasim Online reported on Tuesday March 22 that Minoo Khaleghi, a leading candidate in Isfahan, was disqualified by the Guardian Council. Her name had been on the list of candidates endorsed by reformists. Minoo Khaleghi According to the report, the fifth representative from Isfahan will therefore be...

Families of political prisoners who were not granted a furlough for Norooz spent the first hours of the New Year on March 20 staging a sit-in outside Evin Prison to be closer to their relatives. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Monday March 21 that supporters of Mohammad Ta...

March 22, 2016 at 12:39 pm Iran’s chief of traffic police says road accidents destroy seven percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product each year. Commander Taghi Mehri told IRNA on Monday March 21 that this information is based on gove ment research studies in partnership with Shahid Beheshti U...

The U.S. president issued a video message on the occasion of the Iranian New Year to the Iranian people and all those who celebrate Norooz around the world, heralding better trade relations between the two countries. Barack Obama In a Norooz message from the Haft Sin table of the White House, Barack...

Iran’s Supreme Leader has dubbed the Iranian New Year the year of “the Economy of Resistance; Plan and action!” and in his Norooz message he stressed that the economy of resistance will “guard against enemy threats.”< Ayatollah Ali Khamenei[/caption] Ayatollah Khamenei called the passing year “bitte...