The Kaleme website reports that opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house arrest since February 2011, cast their votes today in a portable ballot box that was sent to their street. It is not yet clear if Mehdi Karroubi, the other opposition leader under hous...

Elections for the tenth Islamic Republic parliament and the fifth Assembly of Experts is underway in Tehran today Friday February 26, 2016. The gove ment has predicted a 65 to 70 percent vote tu out in the elections. Official reports indicate that 54 million and 915 thousand across the country are e...

Iran’s Minister of Communications says the administration has resisted pressure from certain gove ment bodies to implement widespread censorship on the inte et in preparation for the elections. Mahmoud Vaezi Mahmoud Vaezi said on Friday February 26 that the Supreme Council of Cyberspace was adamant ...

Chants in support of ending the house arrest of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi have led to the temporary closure of two polling stations in Tehran. The Fars News Agency, a media outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards, reported on Friday February 26 that t...

Reports from Iran indicate that protests staged by animal rights activists in front of Parliament on Wednesday February 25 were met with a violent reaction from the authorities, and a number of the activists were beaten and arrested. Eyewitness reports indicate that the protesters, who had gathered ...

The Iranian president’s adviser on Women and Family Affairs says the gove ment has allotted a budget to assist the families of executed people, citing a village in Sistan-Baluchistan where all the men have been executed. According to Islamic Republic law, drug-smuggling charges can carry the sentenc...

The head of Iran’s election office, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has welcomed the reported demand by Mehdi Karroubi to be given the right to vote in the elections. The Fars News Agency reports that Moghimi said: “All eligible voters should be provided with the facilities to cast their vote.” Mehdi Karr...

The Iranian president’s adviser on Women and Family Affairs says the gove ment has allotted a budget to assist the families of executed people, citing a village in Sistan-Baluchistan where all the men have been executed. According to Islamic Republic law, drug-smuggling charges can carry the sentenc...

The head of Iran’s election office, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has welcomed the reported demand by Mehdi Karroubi to be given the right to vote in the elections. The Fars News Agency reports that Moghimi said: “All eligible voters should be provided with the facilities to cast their vote.” Mehdi Karr...

Mehdi Karroubi, the Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 for triggering protests with allegations of vote fraud along with MirHosein Mousavi, has now asked to get a ballot box at his home in order to cast his vote in the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections...

Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Irayi, a political activist couple, have been sentenced to fifteen and six years respectively for their activism, and the sentence has been approved by the appeals court. Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Irayi Sadeghi told the Inte ational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he...

Reports from Iran indicate that protests staged by animal rights activists in front of Parliament on Wednesday February 25 were met with a violent reaction from the authorities, and a number of the activists were beaten and arrested. Eyewitness reports indicate that the protesters, who had gathered ...

Teachers’ rights activist Esmail Abdi has been sentenced to six years in jail according to the Workers and Teachers Rights Website. Esmail Abdi The report adds that the order was received by Abdi’s lawyer on Monday February 22. Esmail Abdi was arrested last July, one week after he was prevented from...

February 24, 2016 at 5:38 pm Iranian customs has a ounced the discovery of four people being shipped to Turkey by human traffickers. The Mehr News Agency reports that customs officers discovered the four migrants through X-Ray sca ing of a container about to cross the border on a truck. The transit ...

Reports from Azerbaijan indicate that the automobile of Masood Namazi, a reformist candidate in Shabastar, was set on fire. Namazi is reportedly a board member of the Iranian Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization headed by Mohammdreza Aref, a senior reformist figure. Namazi told ILNA that extre...

Bahman Darolshafayi, a jailed jou alist and translator, was released from Evin Prison on bail on Tuesday February 23. Bahman Darolshafayi Darolshafayi, who retu ed to Iran two years ago, was arrested on February 3 at his home. In Iran, he has worked with various newspapers including Shargh, Etemad M...

February 23, 2016 at 3:58 pm Ahwaz officials say the concentration of dust particles in the city’s air has risen to over 24 times the acceptable level. IRNA reports that officials from the Ahwaz Department of the Environment a ounced on Tuesday February 23 that the level of dust particles in the cit...

Social networking sites Line, WhatsApp and Tango are now subject to complete censorship, according to the Iranian judiciary, and all access to them is to be blocked by the authorities. According to the Young Reporters Club, a member of the Press Supervisory Board has informed them that the order has...

February 23, 2016 at 2:48 am Five Iranian activists have been sentenced to prison and flogging in Ardebil for demanding the release of political prisoners. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that Tohid Amiramini, Saleh Pichakanlo, Meysam Jolani, Mostafa Parvinjoda and Morteza Par...

Iranian media report that a debate between the directors of the Keyhan and Shargh newspapers on state television’s Cha el One has reportedly been cancelled. Hossein Shariatmadari, the ultra-conservative head of Keyhan and representative of the Supreme Leader’s views, was supposed to debate Shargh di...