Britain ordered its financial institutions on Monday to halt all business with Iranian counterparts, including the central bank, and the United States is also expected to tighten sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program.
The government in Tehran is doing its best to stamp out free thinking through text messages. “Dear citizen, based on information we received you have fallen under the influence of the anti-security propaganda of media connected with foreign…
Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a…
Iran could use oil as a political tool in the event of any future conflict over its nuclear program, Iran's energy minister told Al Jazeera television.
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's media advisor, has been sentenced to one year in prison and a three-year ban from media activities. Iranian media report that the director of IRNA has been found guilty of "publishing material…
While the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the Basij militia under its command, and the law enforcement forces in the Islamic Republic of Iran have been facing deserters and dealing with psychological issues in the past two years because of the…
The Iranian government has asked its citizens not to buy dollars, in an effort to stem a rush for hard currency that has sent the exchange rate plummeting in recent months.
Iranian authorities have imposed a two-month ban on the paper for printing what the country's press watchdog said was "lies and insults" to officials, media reported Sunday.
The EU parliament urged European companies on Thursday to refrain from selling to technology and services to Iran that could be used by authorities for censorship and surveillance.
Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday.
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