The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Iran's main intelligence organization, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups, committing human rights abuses, and backing the Syrian government's lethal crackdown on its citizens.
The Iranian regime has been helping Syria circumvent international sanctions imposed for the brutal slaughter of its civilians, according to documents from the Syrian president's office.
The Iranian regime continued its sustained crackdown on the press, arresting a blogger, handing a journalist a harsh prison term, and banning a reformist news publication, according to news reports. The regime has also announced the mass…
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran has added 3,000 new generation centrifuges to its Natanz facility, increasing the production of 3.5 percent enriched uranium by 50 percent.
Following 7 months of unpaid wages of native workers in Dariyan Dam located in Pawa (in Kermanshah province in the west of Iran), the workers and residents of Dariyan village have held protests at the employer's office.
Iranian security forces deployed in parts of Tehran on Tuesday after opposition figures called on supporters to hit the streets in protest against the year-long house arrest of their leaders, the opposition website Kaleme reported.
One of the members of the Democratic Union's Central Council of Kurdish Students was sentenced to one suspended year sentence by the Revolution Court in Sanandaj (The Capital of Kurdistan province in Iran).
The Tehran Governor has announced that the authorities are prepared to confront any attempt to hold public demonstrations on February 14.
The death penalty for minors and death by stoning have been omitted from the Islamic Republic's penal code after years of review and reform of the penal laws.
“The dispute over Iran’s nuclear program is nothing more than a convenient excuse for the US to use threats to protect the 'reserve currency’ status of the dollar,” the newspaper, which calls itself the voice of the Islamic Revolution,…
Kurdistan Press Agency
