Conservative Iranian MP Ali Motahari has once again urged the Islamic Republic government to release Mir Hosein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, the opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since February 2011 for challenging the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejads victory in the 2009 election. Ali Motahari stated that it is ...

[caption id="attachment_75077" align="alignright" width="179"] Hamid Baeidinejad (pic) heads Irans expert-level nuclear negotiating team.[/caption] Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) will continue the process for a comprehensive nuclear agreement withexpert-level talks this week. Hamid Baeidinejad, the Foreign ...

Iran and the 5+1 Powers resume high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday. The two sides are negotiating for a comprehensive nuclear agreement, following Novembers interim deal. They opened the comprehensive discussions last month in Vienna, and experts held technical talks in early March. Under the six-month interim deal, which came into force on January ...

Zahra Rahnavard and MirHosein Mousavi met with Rahnavards aging mother, Ehtermolsadat Navab Safavi, on Sunday March 16 under the supervision of Iranian security officers. The Kaleme website reports: this family meeting had unexpectedly coincided with a meeting of a group of teachers and families of political prisoners. According to Kaleme, the ...

The spokesperson for Irans Foreign Ministry has declared that the U.S. State Departments statement regarding Zahra Rahnavard, MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi amounts to interference in Irans domestic affairs. ISNA reports that Marzieh Afkham told reporters on Saturday February 15: This statement is interference in Irans domestic matters and goes ...

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 ...

Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said if MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi declare that we are committed to the rule of law and peace, they could become eligible for a pardon. At a press conference on Tuesday February 4, Pourmohammadi said Mousavi and Karroubi have not been officially put on trial because the establishment has deliberated ...

An opposition website reports that MirHosein Mousavi has expressed serious concerns to his children about the health of his wife. Islamic Republic authorities have held Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, under house arrest since February 2011. On Saturday December 28, the Kaleme website reported that Mousavi and Rahnavards daughters visited ...

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has expressed serious concern regarding the attack on the daughters of MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, the opposition leaders under house arrest. Reports from Iran indicate that on their last visit to their detained parents, Zahra and Nargess Mousavi were assaulted and harassed by security forces. Mousavi ...

Imprisoned Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been allowed to meet with two of his daughters for the first time after four months. According to opposition site Kaleme, on Wednesday, Mousavi and wife Zahra Rahnavard met with their daughters Narges and Kokab under under tight surveillance. Mousavis other daughter, Zahra, was barred from ...

(Reuters) - Iranian authorities took two daughters of detained opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi from their homes on Monday, releasing them after several hours of questioning, news agencies reported. Mousavi - a figurehead of the "Green movement" that alleged that the last presidential election was rigged - has been under house arrest with his ...

(Reuters) - Iranian authorities held and questioned two daughters of detained opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and the son of fellow opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi for several hours on Monday, opposition websites reported. Mousavi and Karoubi stood as reformist candidates in presidential elections in 2009 and became figureheads of the huge "Green ...

(Reuters) - Two leadingIranian opposition figures held under house arrest for almost two years have been denied contact with their children, their daughters said in a statement published on Saturday. Mirhossein Mousavi stood in presidential elections in 2009 and became one of the figureheads of the huge street protests over allegations of vote rigging ...