Tehran, Sept 2, IRNA The problem of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi's house arrest needs more time to be solved, Minister of Justice Mustafa Pourmohammadi said on Wednesday. Speaking in a meeting with directors of Iranian media, he noted that house arrest of Karroubi and Mousavi is a security issue and the Supreme National Security Council ...

Tehran, July 12, IRNA Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said those involved in 2009 incidents in Iran are not to be trusted. The leader was referring to the anti-government street protests following the 2009 presidential elections in Iran. Western countries, especially US, supported the saboteurs behind the ...

Tehran, June 25, The Iran Project A number of principlists walked out the Iftar banquet organized by President Hassan Rouhani after Karbaschis speech in support of sedition leaders. Last night, some principlists left President Rouhanis Iftarbanquet where both the members of reformist and principlist parties had been invited. It came after ...

Tehran, June 25, The Iran Project Iranian lawmaker Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghadam stressed on the impact of removing the leader of reform movement from political scene on the upcoming parliamentary elections. Pointing to the political problem (media ban) of the reformists leader Mohammad Khatami, Spokesman of the Combatant Clergy Association, Gholamreza ...

[caption id="attachment_154973" align="alignright" width="204"] Iranian outspoken MP Ali Motahari was attack by a group of assailants in Shiraz on March 9, 2015.[/caption] Over fifty assailantsattacked outspoken Iranian MP Ali Motahari in Shirazwith pepper spray, rotten tomatoes and bricks, causing injury to his face. ISNA reports that Motahari,...

[caption id="attachment_153334" align="alignright" width="195"] Iranian officials offer condolences to former reformist president in Tehran on February 25, 2015.[/caption] TEHRAN:Iranhas blocked two news websites after they published reports about former reformist presidentMohammad Khatamiand pictures of him, state-runIRNAnews agency said Friday....

[caption id="attachment_153219" align="alignright" width="234"] Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Kharazi, head of Nedaye Iranian, speaks during congress of the new reformist party in Tehran on February 26, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)[/caption] Tehran (AFP) - A new Iranian political party with social democratic leanings opened its first congress Thursday, aiming ...

[caption id="attachment_124812" align="alignright" width="220"] Prosecutor General Ebrahim Ra'isi[/caption] Tehran, Feb 16, IRNA Prosecutor General Ebrahim Ra'isi said on Monday US administration's interference in internal affairs of Iran is both illegal and unjustifiable, adding that the US must immediately apologize to Iran. Hojjatoleslam Seyyed ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 22 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A meeting between the Supreme Leader and the visiting secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during which Ayatollah Khamenei said, We will ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A warning to the US Congress by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that the Iranian parliament would retaliate in case Capitol Hill imposed new sanctions on Tehran dominated ...

[caption id="attachment_145816" align="alignright" width="162"] The file photo shows Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari speaking at a Parliament open session.[/caption] A member of Irans Parliament (Majlis) says the board that oversees the lawmakers has received a formal complaint against MP Ali Motahari over his remarks criticizing the long-term house ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) An Iranian parliament session has descended into chaos as several hard-line lawmakers disrupted a speech by a moderate colleague criticizing the long-term house arrest of two opposition leaders. Parliamentarian Ali Motahari was speaking out Sunday in open session against the detention orders, calling them "unconstitutional." His ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The comments of the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council about nuclear talks and ties with the United States dominated the front pages of many Iranian ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:Jafari dismissed reports of ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Supreme Court has disbarred a hardline judge over his role in the death by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters in 2009, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported. Saeed Mortazavi, an ally of former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has also been barred from all government positions for five ...

Expectations for change have been high in Iran since President Hassan Rouhani's election. There have been some improvements, analysts say, but his ability to make deeper change may depend on the result of nuclear talks. TEHRAN, IRAN As nuclear negotiations reach a crescendo betweenIran and six world powers, there is much at stake at home for Irans ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 32 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Reelection of Hossein Entezami as the representative of the press managing editors at the Media Supervisory Board dominated the front pages of Iranian dailies on Wednesday....

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian dailies on Saturday and picked headlines from 21 of them. Iranian dailies on Saturday gave extensive coverage to the comments of the Supreme Leader in a meeting with Ramadan Abdullah, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The other top story of the day was the end of an 8thround of nuclear ...

More than five years after the disputed 2009 Presidential election and protests by millions of its people, Irans regime is still warning of the threat of sedition. Tehran Friday Prayer Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (pictured)issued the latest call: In truth, the sedition of 2009 stood against the republicanism of our system of governance.I get the ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and the European Unions foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met on Wednesday in Vienna, seeking to close significant gaps in the nuclear talks between Tehran and the 5+1 Powers. No details were given on Wednesday nights meeting. Key issues of difference include the number ...