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  • Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution

    Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 07:23
    Wednesday, 31 March 2010 - Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar chair at UCLA where he is also a tenured full professor of Islamic and Iranian studies and the director of Iranian studies. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematic...

  • Prison Authorities to Behrooz Javid Tehrani: Stay in the “doghouse” or be transferred to cell occupied by murderers

    Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 07:18
    Wednesday, 31 March 2010 - According to reports received by Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran (HRDAI), on Monday March 29, 2010, political prisoner Behrooz Javid Tehrani was told he must choose from two detention options....

  • Iranian nuclear scientist who vanished on pilgrimage defects to US

    Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:00
    Wednesday, 31 March 2010 - An Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared while on pilgrimage to Mecca last year has defected to the United States and is living and working there for the CIA, it was reported today....

  • Iran executions send a chilling message

    Created: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:04
    Tuesday, 30 March 2010 - Recent developments in Iran have prompted fears that the Iranian authorities are once more using executions as a tool to try and quell political unrest, intimidate the population and send a signal that dissent will not be toler...

  • Bahari: internet is the key to helping journalists jailed by Iranian regime

    Created: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:01
    Tuesday, 30 March 2010 - Journalist Maziar Bahari was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for attempting to report on last year's disputed election. He was held in solitary confinement and coerced into giving a false confession of spying....

  • Funeral of Montazeri wife held under heavy security presence

    Created: Monday, 29 March 2010 07:08
    Monday, 29 March 2010 - GVF -- The official website of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi has reported that tens of plain-clothed and police forces have prevented a proper funeral to take place for the wife of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri....

  • 'Not by Street Demonstrations Alone'

    Created: Monday, 29 March 2010 07:06
    An interview with Saeed Rahnem_   Saeed Rahnema was active in the labor and left movement during the 1979 revolution in Iran. He was a founder and a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of Workers/Employees Councils of IDRO, the largest ind...

  • 550 Days in Evin: How to Survive in Iran Prisons

    Created: Monday, 29 March 2010 07:03
    Saeid Pour Maleki is a political prisoner arrested in October 2008 after his arrival in Iran by the Cyber Army of the Revolutionary Guards and has been kept in Evin prison since. Born in 1975, he graduated in Metallurgy engineering at Sharif University of...

  • Jailed Iranian Protesters Reject Charges, Urge Release

    Created: Sunday, 28 March 2010 08:41
    Sunday, 28 March 2010 - A group of prisoners at Tehran's Evin prison have written an open letter in which they reject government allegations of them having links with foreign countries or political parties, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports....

  • Intelligence officials trying to prevent funeral of senior cleric's wife

    Created: Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:54
    Saturday, 27 March 2010 - GVF -- Despite Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s sons’ announcement that they plan to hold their mother’s funeral procession on Sunday from their house to Qom’s holy shrine, security officials have opposed such a move....

  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards behind recent arrest of activists

    Created: Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:52
    Saturday, 27 March 2010 - Human Rights Activists in Iran claims that the “plot against human rights activists in Iran is being carried out by the Revolutionary Guards Corps.”...

  • Eavesdropping on Critics’ Phone Conversations Revealed

    Created: Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:50
    Saturday, 27 March 2010 - Following the arrest of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s grandson and Faezeh Hashemi’s son, Hassan Lahooti, Iranian Judiciary authorities have asked him questions, which explicitly demonstrate that Iranian intelligence organ...

  • RHRAI Annual Report 1388

    Created: Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:44
    Saturday, 27 March 2010 - 1388 was a black year for human rights in Iran. The peaceful protests of the people for their civil rights were brutally repressed and scores of citizens were subjected to violent treatment....

  • Iran-US advisory group recommends technology-based policy

    Created: Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:43
    An advisory task force comprising U.S., EU, and Iranian members was convened by The Century Foundation's Inside Iran project in collaboration with the National Security Network -- two policy research institutes among Washington's most liberal think tan...

  • The Good Ayatollah

    Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 07:10
    If 2010 turns out to be the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it may well be because of the death of one of the regime's founders, a man I met three decades ago in Tehran's infamous Evin prison. In 1977, I was a 27-year-old rebe...

  • UN tells Iran to end Eutelsat satellite jamming

    Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 07:07
    Friday, 26 March 2010 - GENEVA, March 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations' leading communications agency called on Iran on Friday to end jamming of foreign satellite broadcasts, which is banned under its global regulations....

  • 900 Iranian activists sign letter for Omid Montazeri’s release

    Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 07:03
    Friday, 26 March 2010 - More than 900 social and political activists have signed a statement, demanding the unconditional release and fair trial of Omid Montazeri....

  • New Coordinated Attack on Human Rights Groups

    Created: Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:36
    Thursday, 25 March 2010 - Iran's state-owned media, judiciary, and security forces have opened a coordinated attack on human rights groups in recent weeks under the guise of defending the nation against "cyber warfare," Human Rights Watch said today....

  • West cranks up rhetoric as Iran's opposition regroups and refocuses

    Created: Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:28
    Thursday, 25 March 2010 - The West has returned to its default setting of pressurizing Iran with bellicose rhetoric and threats over its nuclear plans. In Iran, however, positive change may still be in the hands of the country's opposition....

  • A Step by Step Guide on How to Fight Internet Censorship in Iran and What the U.S. Can Do

    Created: Wednesday, 24 March 2010 06:57
    We have learned in school that "information is power". In some countries, information and spreading the truth among the people means saving lives and alleviating the suffering of those who are in pain. That's why many of activists, bloggers, and...