IFP - Mohammad Nourizad, a political dissident convicted of involvement in stoking the post-election unrest in Iran in 2009, has asked the Leader to give him permission to leave the country to visit his ill son. According to a group of social media activists, Nourizad has written a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Irans Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi lambasted Britain for playing a negative role in Iran's post-election unrests in 2009. "The British government brought on the scene all its media and political potentials to support the seditionists during the 2009 unrests," Naqdi said, addressing a meeting ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and European Union foreign policy head Catherine Ashton have ended two days of nuclear talks in Oman with no progress. The officials were hoping to close significant gaps between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) before a plenary ...

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By New York Times Irans top leader has granted amnesty to 130 prisoners related to the 2009 post-election turmoil, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered immediate releases for some of the 130 and reduced prison terms for the rest on the occasion of the coming holiday ending the Islamic holy ...