Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, reported that he and other family members met with his father, who is under house arrest, on the eve of the New Year. Mehdi Karroubi, one of the challengers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejads victory in the 2009 presidential election, has been under house arrest since 2011. Mohammad ...

225 Iranian activists issued a statement calling for the release of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard. Kaleme reports in a statement the activist say: Three years have passed since the illegal house arrest of the leaders of the Green Movement of Iranian people and since February 14, 2011 Mr. Karroubi, Mr. Mousavi ...

Washington is calling on Tehran to release three Iranian opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since 2011 without being formally charged with any crime. The U.S. State Department issued the call on February 14 marking the third anniversary of the detention of former presidential candidates and opposition leaders Mehdi Karrubiand Mir ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told university students Saturday that tolerance could resolve the issue of political prisoners, as some of them chanted for opposition leaders under house arrest to be freed. "My government is committed to the promises it has made to the people, but we need to create internal consensus to achieve the objectives," ...

(Reuters) - New candidates entered Iran's presidential race on Saturday on opposite sides of the divide between loyal defenders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and opponents accused of threatening to undermine him. Amid intense speculation on the final day of registration, two former presidents kept Iranians guessing on whether they would ...

Irans reformers transformed revolutionary politics between 1997 and 2005 under former President Mohammed Khatami. But today, the reformists ability to contest the presidential elections in any meaningful way appears slim. Conservatives have even taken to labeling them the seditionist current, despite the fact that most were among the original revolutionaries....

Todays top headlines in Iran include leader warning government for the delay in proposing budget bill; president Ahmadinejad speech on complete implementation of subsidy reform plan; suspended jail sentence for son of Iranian Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi and self-sufficiency of Iran Khodro in Peugeot 206 production.   Irans leader ...

In what appears to be a significant softening of tone, a hard-line Iranian cleric, Mashhad Friday Prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, has said that it is wrong to consider opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi as "seditionists." Alamolhoda was speaking to the semiofficialFars news agency, which is said to be affiliated with ...