Iran planning execution of 9 more election protesters: report
Iran will "soon execute" nine more Iranian citizens for their roles in last summer's post-election protests , according to a statement given by senior judiciary official Ebrahim Raisi to the Fars News Agency Tuesday. The...
Iran top judge says protester executions to be based on law, not political pressure
Top Iranian judge Sadeq Larijani said Monday that any further executions of anti-government protesters will be based on the law rather than on political pressure. Refusing to heed calls for more executions to...
Iran media activists urge new prosecutor to free detained journalists
Media workers and reformists are urging Iran's new prosecutor general Abbas Jafari Dolat-Abadi to remove bans placed on newspapers and to free journalists who were imprisoned during the term of his predecessor, Saeed Mortazavi ,...
Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani has removed controversial Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi from office, according to state media reports Saturday. The reason for the dismissal is as yet unclear. Mortazavi was appointed as...
Larijani's appointment to head Iranian judiciary unlikely to stop extralegal prosecutions
Nema Milaninia : "The recent appointment of Ayatollah Sadegh Ardeshir Larijani as the new head of Iran's judiciary is unlikely to remedy the dire judicial and prison conditions prevailing in Iran and exacerbated by recent turmoil...
Iranian officials on Sunday began the trial of at least 25 people detained during protests following the recent contested presidential election . The defendants are accused of a range of crimes including participating in illegal...
An Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former key nuclear negotiator, of espionage charges but convicted him of "propagating" against the Islamic government, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said Tuesday. Mousavian was arrested in May on...
The government of Iran has charged a former key nuclear negotiator with espionage, the state news agency IRNA reported Wednesday. Hossein Mousavian was arrested in May on suspicions that he passed...
Iran parliament approves draft law to keep out nuclear inspectors
The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft of a bill to bar inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from entering the country if the UN Security Council imposes...
Iran says it will continue to expand nuclear program by right
Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Sunday that Iran will continue to expand its uranium enrichment program despite the UN Security Council resolution setting an August 31 deadline for the country to halt nuclear...
