The World Health Organization has ranked Zabol in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan as having the dirtiest air because of its sand storms. Reuters reports that according to the WHO, the air in Zabol is the most polluted in the world, and Zabol residents spend many summer months each year in...

Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroodi, the jailed Iranian teacher who was hospitalized following his hunger strike, has reportedly been released. ILNA reported on Wednesday May 11 that Beheshti Langaroodi’s family, who have been at his bedside since his hospitalization, have reported that he has been released...

The head of Iran’s Guardian Council says the council’s responsibility to oversee elections is “general and at every stage” and has been so in the past. Ahmad Ja ati The Fars News Agency reports that Ahmad Ja ati told a meeting of Islamic Propagation officials on Wednesday May 11: “The Guardian Counc...

Keyvan Mehregan, the Iranian poet, jou alist and filmmaker, was released from Evin Prison on Wednesday May 11. Keyvan Mehregan Mehregan’s wife, Afsaneh Parchekani, reports that the prosecutor and the judge agreed to a conditional release for her husband, who had been on a furlough. Mehregan was arre...

A dispute over the distribution of water among a number of farms in Susa, Khuzestan has left one person dead and three injured. IRNA reports that the conflict arose in Susa on Monday evening, adding that the deceased and the wounded are all members of the same family and between the ages of 30 and 3...

Keyhan Kalhor’s concert in Neyshapour was cancelled on Tuesday May 10 by the order of the city’s prosecutor. Keyhan Kalhor ILNA reports that the famous Kamancheh player and musician is being accompanied on this tour by the Rah-e Rouh music group as well as Navid Afghah (Tombak), Ali Bahramyfrd (sant...

by Asad Binakhahi

Rasoul Bodaghi, the Iranian teacher and activist recently released after seven years in jail, has been attacked by police and arrested once again. Rasoul Bodaghi The Human Rights Activists News Agency reports that Bodaghi was beaten and arrested on Sunday as he was visiting his colleague, Mahmoud Be...

A police car chase of a truck in Kerman led to the death of five immigrants and injured another 13. ISNA reports that the truck carrying illegal immigrants sped away when the police tried to stop it, resulting in a chase in the Anar region of Kerman on Saturday May 7. The driver reportedly ignored p...

More than 100 Iranian MPs have called on the president to reconsider the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action drafted after the nuclear agreement was reached last summer between Iran and the 5+1 and to resume Iran’s nuclear activities within the framework of the NPT as in the past. The Fars News Agenc...

Mohsen Khalili, the head of the disciplinary branch of Iran’s Medical Council, reported this week that complaints against physicians rose by five percent last year. Khalili told IRNA on Sunday that the highest number of complaints were in co ection to obstetrics, surgery and dentistry. The latest re...

The third leg of Shahram and Hafez Nazeri’s Persian classical music concert tour is set to kick off in Isfahan on May 19 and 20, and the group’s female musicians have been ba ed from appearing on stage. The concert is to take place in the Gol-e Nargess stadium, and the efforts by organizers to get p...

Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroodi, a jailed Iranian teacher serving a nine-year sentence, was transferred to hospital on Saturday May 7 due to his continuing hunger strike. Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroodi Beheshti Langaroodi has been on hunger strike since April 20 and in recent days he has also been refusing...

The Mazandaran Revolutionary Guards report that 13 of their members were killed in the recent conflicts in Aleppo, Syria, and another 21 were wounded. ISNA quoted Mazandaran IRGC public relations officer Hoseinali Rezai as saying the casualties were “defenders of the Shrine of Zeynab”. In an a ounce...

MirMahmoud Mousavi, the brother of opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, was assaulted on Saturday evening May 7. He was wounded in the neck but survived the attack. MirMahmoud Mousavi The Kaleme website, referring to MirMahmoud Mousavi as a prominent diplo...

Iranian MP Ahmad Tavakoli has expressed serious reservations about the Guardian Council’s disqualification of Minoo Khaleghi, the candidate who won the third-highest number of votes in Isfahan, and said the lack of transparency around this decision compromises the council’s credibility. Minoo Khaleg...

After Leonardo DiCaprio expressed conce on his Instagram page about the decline of Lake Urmia, Weste Azerbaijan Province’s Committee for the Restoration of Lake Urmia extended an invitation to the Hollywood star to visit the endangered lake. Hadi Bahadori, the head of the committee, expressed his ap...

Asad Binakhahi

Seven Iranian actors were arrested at a party in Tehran, according to an Iranian media report. Mizan Khabar, the Iranian judiciary website, a ounced on Wednesday that seven “famous actors” were arrested at a party in Tehran’s Saadat Abad neighbourhood. The report adds that 80 bottles of alcohol were...

Jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was released on Wednesday May 4 from Evin Prison. Ronaghi Maleki was finally able to secure the approval of the prosecutor’s office for his release on medical grounds. He was arrested in the aftermath of the election protests of 2009, after he ran a blog...