Iran’s Vice President for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has again come under fire by Majlis [parliament] deputies, following a ceremony last week which was deemed insulting to the Koran, Islam’s holy book.
US President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and the Islamic Republic must stop supporting “terrorist organizations.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently released a report to the UN General Assembly on human rights in Iran. Although Mr. Ban noted improvements over the past year in the areas of education and health care, he expressed concern over a broad range of Iranian human rights abuses
Esha Momeni, an American student visiting Iran, has been arrested and held in solitary confinement in the notorious section 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison for daring to campaign for women’s rights
From the national daily newspaper ‘Trouw’-The discussion about stoning is held again now that the Shiite theologians proclaimed that fatwa’s on this form of execution is at odds with the Koran. Their point of view is encouraging for Iranian activists for human rights who try to get stoning abolished. Among the theologians are ayatollah Montazeri and ayatollah Shirazi . They are opposite of each other. Montazari is taken as a defender of human rights and often takes a mild point of view. Shirazi mostly is a hardliner. Both responded to an article on internet by Mosatafa Azmayesh. According to Azmayesh the Hadith do not have sayings by Mohammad about stoning as a punishment
Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported
some verses and others like it are necessary reading for researchers who insist that stoning is an accept form of punishment under Islamic Law. Because, it is clear, from such verses as these, that such form of punishment is in fact in complete opposition to principle of Islamic Law as stated in the Koran and goes against all values that God has bestowed on his crowning achievement: Human creation and Human values.
A Malaysian university has cancelled a scheduled speech by the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi
The European Union said Friday it is “very worried” about what it sees as a deterioration of religious freedom in Iran
Foreign ministers from the six powers leading the international community’s response to Iran’s nuclear programme are to meet Thursday in New York to consider possible further sanctions, France said.
Iran has executed two youths who were convicted of murder when they were fifteen years of age
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader, responded to mounting domestic criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a strong statement of support, praising his internal policies and his dogged defense of the country’s nuclear program, Iranian news media reported Sunday.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against economic policies which would further fuel inflation, a press report said on Sunday
Iranian religious figures have criticised that Olympic female rower Homa Hosseini was chosen as the flagbearer of Iran, calling the move a ‘heresy’.
Iran’s national flag-bearer Homa Hosseini lead her country’s team during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium (or the Bird’s Nest) August 8, 2008.You can view some photos of Iran’s team as well as watch a video clip of their march at the Games
Mohammad Khatami said on Thursday that he has made up his mind for next year’s presidential election but he currently has no intention to reveal it, ISNA reported
European Union nations have introduced fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, including restrictions on public loans and tougher cargo inspections, the EU presidency announced Friday.
Iran’s Foreign Minister has strongly criticised the police in Saudi Arabia for fingerprinting Iranians including a senior aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran should face “punitive” measures after failing to respond to an international package of incentives that sought to defuse the crisis over its nuclear ambitions, the US said yesterday
Iran’s annual inflation was 26.1 percent in the year to July, newspapers said on Thursday, a slight dip from the 26.4 percent reported for the year to June.
The government executed two men on Monday who were convicted of having ties with an armed opposition group in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the newspaper Etemad Melli reported Tuesday
Major powers have agreed to seek new sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, but informal contact between the European Union and Iran will go on, Britain said on Wednesday
For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time.
The explosion took place in the Tehran suburb of Khavarshahar as the military convoy left a munitions’ warehouse controlled by the Revolutionary Guards. According to reports received by Western officials, the convoy was taking a consignment of military equipment to Hizbollah, the Shia Muslim militia Iran supports in southern Lebanon, when the explosion occurred.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton said the United States should assist Israel in any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities
Near the close of his visit to Israel on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. A major topic of their long conversation was Obama’s declared willingness to engage in direct dialogue with Tehran
Britain on Monday accused Iran of stepping up human rights violations.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will travel to Iran to hold talks over its nuclear program, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan.
Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18 – and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty
