A number of political prisoners were given a temporary leave on Tuesday March 25, five days into the Iranian New Year. The Kaleme opposition website reports that five prisoners linked to MirHosein Mousavi, a challenger of the 2009 presidential election, were given furloughs: Nader Jani, Nasor NAghipour, Hamidreza Karvasi, Mahmoud Bagheri , Abbas Ghafari ...

Vienna, Mar 17, IRNA -- A planned dinner between European Union foreign policy chief Catherine and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday evening in Vienna has been overshadowed by Ashton?s recent unsanctioned meetings in Tehran. The dinner which has been called of by Zarif, was supposed to chart out the second round of talks between ...