Sasan Soleymani, who produced the video of Iranian youth in Tehran dancing to the Pharrell Williams song Happy, remains in custody in Rejai Shahr Prison, even though all six people who appeared in the video have been released on bail. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that the Soleymani family tried to put up bail on Saturday ...

Irans authoritieshave executed a billionaire businessmanover his central role in a $2.6 billion bank fraud that rocked the countrys economy and political system. State TV said Mahafarid Amir Khosravi was hanged early Saturday in Evin Prison in Tehran. He was convicted of forging letters of credit with the help of high-level bank managers to get loans ...

(Reuters) - Six Iranians arrested for appearing in a video singing along to an American pop song were released on Wednesday, one day after being detained for what police called their "obscene" behaviour, one of them said in an online posting. In the clip, the three women and three men dance and lip synch to Pharrell Williams' "Happy", imitating the ...

Iranian youth who posted a video of themselves on YouTube dancing to Pharrell Williams song Happy have reportedly been arrested by Irans morality police. Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia announced on national television that all the people involved in the video have been identified. He warned that these young people had been duped and the video-...