Shayan Ghajar
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a public statement September 8 protesting Ankara’s plans to allow the installation of a NATO missile shield system on Turkish soil. Turkish officials announced the previous week that negotiations with NATO had entered their final stages, prompting Iran’s outcry. more»
Reza H. Akbari
In an unexpected move, the Iranian government dedicated funding to appease tens of thousands of Azeri protestors by saving a lake in the northwestern region of the country. more»
Reza H. Akbari
According to the Iranian Students’ News Agency, ISNA, Rouzgar daily, a reformist publication, and Shahrvand-e Emrouz, a weekly reformist news magazine, were banned by the order of the Tehran’s prosecutor office on September 5. more»
Reza H. Akbari
Fereydoon Abbasi, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Director, announced that Iran will no longer negotiate about the production of nuclear fuel or its exchange with other countries. more»
Shayan Ghajar
In a meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cabinet on August 28, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered two criticisms of the beleaguered executive in a public statement. Ahmadinejad, battling for political supremacy over Khamenei’s faction mere months ago, lost the struggle. Khamenei’s statement was published on his official site in its entirety, and summaries of the meeting were published on most official and semi-official news sites.
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Shayan Ghajar
While the United States is downplaying fears that Iran is behind the unrest in neighboring Bahrain, Tehran’s warnings on March 15 indicated that the Islamic republic would not tolerate the presence of Saudi troops, which were deployed into the neighboring kingdom on March 14 to aid the Sunni minority against the Shiite uprising. more»
Shayan Ghajar
The political marginalization of one of Iran’s most prominent politicians, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, took a turn for the worse on March 8, when he was forced to cede his seat as head of the Assembly of Experts, one of the government’s most powerful bodies, to rival Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, a traditionalist cleric. more»
Shayan Ghajar
Reports from the websites of prominent Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi from February 27 and 28 indicate that both men and their spouses have been removed from their homes by government personnel and taken to Heshmatiyeh Prison in Tehran. more»