Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Guidance has reportedly recalled a number of books to be reviewed, even though they had already been approved for a distribution licence. Ministry representative Abbas Salehi told reporters the recall of some books does not necessarily mean that their licences will be ...

Iranian security forces prevented former president and prominent reformist figure Mohammad Khatami from leaving his home to attend the wedding of the daughter of MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, the Iranian opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since 2011. Mohammad Khatami The Ka...

Of the 870,000 people who appealed their elimination from the list of recipients of gove ment monthly benefits put in place after the restructuring of subsidies on energy and food staples, 561,000 have been allowed back on the list. ISNA reports that according to the Targeted Gove ment Benefits orga...

The meeting to determine the minimum wage for workers is to be held without labour representatives, labour advocates report. Faramarz Tofighi told Tasnim that the Supreme Labour Council will meet next Tuesday and no invitations have been extended to labour representatives. Tofighi added that the off...

Six Iranian migrants have sewn their lips together in Calais to protest the mass eviction of migrants and the destruction of their camps in northe France. The Associated Press reports that the protests came three days into the state operation to dismantle the makeshift camp on the outskirts of Calai...

Assembly of Experts candidate Ayatollah Mohammad Sajjadi has filed a complaint with the Guardian Council calling for a recount of his votes. Ja ati- Sajjadi According to the final a ouncement of the Interior Ministry, Sajjadi, who was one of the 16 candidates endorsed by reformists, came in 17th jus...

The Committee to Protect Jou alists (CPJ) has a ounced its serious conce for the health of Issa Saharkhiz, an Iranian jou alist currently held in Evin Prison. The CPJ, an independent jou alist advocate organization founded in 1981, quotes the jailed jou alist’s son reporting that Issa Saharkhiz has ...

Siavosh Ahmadi (Qom) The February 2016 elections revealed once more that the ope ess of the inte et defuses policies of censorship and repression to a certain degree. Iranians have used the inte et as a tool in the service of social resistance since the elections of 2005. Hamid, a 33-year-old semina...

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami issued a statement following the widespread success of reformists in the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections, saying the people have expressed their support for the policies of the Rohani administration, and he called for the implementation of re...

The final vote count in Iran reveals 83 reformists, 78 conservatives, 60 independents and five minority representatives have won their seats in parliament. ISNA reports that of the 290 seats in parliament 226 have been filled and another 128 candidates have moved to a second round of elections for t...

While official reports indicate that unemployment is in decline in the country, a report from the ministry of labour reveals that at least six million people across the country are unemployed. The unemployed population has doubled in Iran in the past 10 years. The report also indicates that in the p...

Ali Larijani, the speaker of the current Parliament who was re-elected in Qom, referred to the defeat of the Society of Qom Seminary Teachers as “a tu of forces in the country” and called it a “welcome event”. Ali Larijani Larijani, who was originally considered to be in the conservative camp, was d...

Three of the five parliamentary representatives elected in Isfahan are reformists, and two of those are women. In Mashhad, all five elected representatives are conservatives, while in Ahwaz, six candidates still remain in the race, which has moved to a second round. Nahid Tajeddin and Minoo Khaleghi...

Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a statement two days after the elections, commending the high level of public participation and thanking the people for heeding his public call to vote. Ayatollah Khamenei On Sunday evening, two days after people went to the polls to elect representatives to the Assembly...

The office of Mohammadreza Aref, chairman of the Reformists’ Supreme Policy Council for the elections and the Moderation and Development Party, a ounced that they will not hold a victory party until later notice. Mohammadreza Aref Reformists have won all top spots in the list of elected MPs from Teh...

February 28, 2016 at 7:05 pm The coroner for Tehran Province reports that in the past 12 months, 272 workers died in workplace accidents. ILNA reports that the Tehran Coroner’s office reported on February 28 that this number, which included 268 men and four women, represented a 30-percent decline in...

February 28, 2016 at 7:07 pm Iranian activist Zartosh Ahmadi Ragheb was sentenced to six months in jail by the authorities for writing material critical of the gove ment on his Facebook page. The court’s sentence was issued last week, and he has 20 days to appeal the decision. The Human Rights Activ...

The preliminary results of the vote count for the Assembly of Experts reveal that in Tehran moderate figures Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Hassan Rohani are in the first two positions respectively. Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsajani ILNA reported that on Saturday February 27 that from over 1.5...

While the final results of the vote count remain una ounced in Tehran reports indicate that at least five women from other cities have managed to enter the next parliament. Zahra Saidi form Mobarakeh in Isfahan and Sakineh Almasi from Bandar Deyr in Bushehr have won majority of the votes in their ri...

The Elections Office released a list of fifty people after counting close to 1.3 million votes in Tehran and the results reveal that the top thirty candidates are all individuals endorsed by reformists save one. The first five candidates are Mohammadreza Aref, Ali Motahari, Alireza Mahjoub, Soheyla ...